[digiKam-users] Gimp, Kimageformats, Digikam, sun is shining...

[Maik Qualmann]

Just as a note, about 2 weeks ago I was able to open the Gimp-2.10 files under 
openSUSE Tumbleweed with digiKam and Gwenview. They were loaded via the QImage 
loader. KImageFormat installed version 5.54. I assumed that maybe a git 
version is used. Now after the update last week on KF-5.55 this feature has 
disappeared again.
Maybe someone is reading from openSUSE and can give an explanation?

Maik

Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2019, 18:31:01 CET schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> Le mar. 19 févr. 2019 à 18:23, <leoutation at gmx.fr> a écrit :
> > On 2/19/19 6:08 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > > Bad news : KDE frameworks KF5 version 5.55 require Qt 5.10 at least to
> > > compile.
> > > The Linux AppImage bundle use Qt 5.9.7 LTS. KF5 5.55 do not compile with
> > > this version (i tried to hack).
> > > 
> > > So i updated at least to KF5 5.54 with is the last version compatible
> > > with Qt 5.9.7 LTS.
> > > 
> > > This is another point that i hate to seen KDE not compatible with the Qt
> > > long time support version. Passing to Qt 5.11 introduce regression and i
> > > don't want to pass to Qt 5.12 until the LTS is declared by Qt team.
> > > 
> > > Including new Qt version in AppImage is complicated and require time. I
> > > want to do it for the moment.
> > > 
> > > And i want to not talk about MAcOS support where Qt is only compatible
> > > with more recent Apple SDK. So if we use Qt 5.12 in OSX package, it will
> > > be only compatible with more recent version of MAcOS. The backward
> > > compatibility is limited.
> > > 
> > > Funny, the only bundle which use Qt 5.12, and which is compiled with KF5
> > > 5.55, is... the windows installer. Thanks MXE cross compiler team which
> > > support well last Qt version.
> > > 
> > > To resume : only the Windows installer of digiKam 6.1.0 has KImageFormat
> > > framework with last XCF support...
> > 
> > Are gimp 2.10 .xcf thumbnails displayed with your w$ installer?
> > In my case, i compiled digikam-git with last kf5-5.55 and qt-5.12.
> > gimp 2.10 xcf thumbnails are not displayed.
> 
> To be honest, i don't yet tested, as i tried to complete quickly the 6.0.0
> release announcement.
> 
> Gilles Caulier