[digiKam-users] flatpak instructions (for the README file)

[Peter Teuben]

Andrey,

    The "open with" works, but has very few entries. Remember it sits in 
a restricted environment.  So even trying /usr/bin/gimp does not work, 
even though it's there.

And I even have the whole filesystem open now.   Perhaps this is another 
setting in flatseal that I haven't discovered, and that' why we are 
talking here , to get those final issues I have out of the way. After 
that I'm happy to submit a ppull request, but I think the one I have now 
is getting pretty close.  thanks for all the feedback, I've learned a 
great deal.

peter

On 6/1/20 1:12 PM, Andrey Goreev wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> Thank you for posting the readme here.
> You mentioned that digiKam flatpak is not able to open GIMP. Does that 
> mean that "Open With" menu won't work at all?
> If that is the case it will a deal breaker for most of us then. I am 
> sure most users use digikam in conjunction with exiftool, ffmpeg, 
> mediainfo, GIMP, Kdenlive, Krita, darktable, RawTherapee and others. 
> Even the ability to locate selected file in dolphin or other file 
> manager seems crucial (to me).
>
> Thanks,
> Andrey
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:31 AM Peter Teuben <teuben at gmail.com 
> <mailto:teuben at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I wanted to start a new thread, with the intend to spiffing up the
>     README file that Gilles started on
>     https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/tree/master/project/bundles/flatpak
>
>     Here is my writeup, still a little KDE (kubuntu w/ plasma)
>     centric, but
>     with the intent to be command line driven as much as possible. I
>     invite
>     anybody to comment and me or somebody will edit the README.md file
>
>
>
>
>     You need admin permission to install the flatpak infrastructure
>
>            sudo apt install flatpak
>            flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub
>     https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
>
>     and on Kubuntu there is a optional GUI based discovery tool
>
>            sudo apt install plasma-discover-flatpak-backend
>
>     after rebooting (it claims), you can then do your user installs
>
>            flatpak install flathub org.kde.digikam
>
>     This will install your apps in ~/.var/app.   Also perhaps import that
>     note that any config
>     files live there (e.g. ~/.var/app/org.kde.digikam/config/digikamrc
>     and
>     your settings in
>     ~/.config/digikamrc are out of visibility)
>
>     running the app goes as follows
>
>            flatpak run org.kde.digikam
>
>     Since flatpak's run in a restricted environment, you will find
>     that not
>     all directories
>     can be see by the digikam collections (/home and /media are
>     exceptions),
>     and you will not
>     be able to launch gimp for example. To edit these settings there is
>     flatseal to the rescue:
>
>            flatpak install flathub flatseal
>
>     which I then read you can either use a command line (but as root,
>     this I
>     still find confusing)
>
>            sudo flatpak override org.kde.digikam --filesystem=/Photos
>
>     or use the GUI
>
>            "launch flatseal, select digiKam", add to "Other files" or
>     select
>     "All system files"
>            Those will be stored in
>     ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides/org.kde.digikam
>
>     now you can run flatpack and see your oddly named /Photos directory
>
>            flatpak run org.kde.digikam
>
>     More information on flatpak, and flatseal permission settings on
>
>     https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/how-install-and-use-flatpak-linux/
>     https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
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