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

[Mark Otway]

Does this build also have the fix that enables SD Card readers on MacBooks
to be visible to DK for import functions?

On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 06:54, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good news,
>
> After 2 weeks of works, the pre-release 6.1.0 bundles are now reconstructed
> from scratch with:
>
> - All OpenCV options for CUDA, OPenMP, and OPenCL disabled to prevent
> crashes
> in face management.
> - A large upgrade of Qt5 from 5.9.7 to 5.11.3.
> - An upgrade to KF5 5.55. This want mean that i'm now able to update to
> next KF5 5.56 planned in one week with the new XCF format support !
> - An upgrade to Ffmpeg 3.3.9
> - The fontconfig/freetype integration in the bundle to reduce system
> dependencies
>
> Files can be downloaded here :
>
> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>
> Please test and report.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mar. 19 févr. 2019 à 22:06, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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