[KPhotoAlbum] The KPA in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ...

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi,


On Sonntag, 29. Jänner 2017 18:36:51 CET Andreas Schleth wrote:
> The program comes with a very misleading title ("open in raw editor") -
> see screenshot from the sw-center (in german).

I'd wish for packagers to do some basic sanity testing :|
Is there already a bug report on that?

> When installed KPA comes up OK in version 4.7 compiled with KDE 4.14.16

Seems fair.

> So, now I try to retrace the steps to install KPA manually using the
> description in userbase.kde.org:
> 
> 1. problem: apt-get does not find libkf5kgeomap-dev (no real problem, I
> am going to build without kgeomap then )

Thanks for noticing. I added a not on the wiki page...

> 2. problem: KF5DocTools missing (apt-get install kdoctools kdoctools-dev
> fixes that -> Do we need only the *dev or both?)

Thanks for the feedback - I've added this information to the wiki page. You 
need both packages, but *-dev packages always depend on their base package, so 
installing kdoctools-dev installs both.


> 3. The Final Problem: (same as reported previously):
> 
> /home/as/kpa/kphotoalbum/AnnotationDialog/Dialog.cpp: In member function
> ‘void AnnotationDialog::Dialog::loadWindowLayout()’:
> /home/as/kpa/kphotoalbum/AnnotationDialog/Dialog.cpp:1242:23: error:
> ‘class QMainWindow’ has no member named ‘resizeDocks’
>           m_dockWindow->resizeDocks({m_generalDock,
> m_descriptionDock},{60,100},
>                         ^
> /home/as/kpa/kphotoalbum/AnnotationDialog/Dialog.cpp:1244:23: error:
> ‘class QMainWindow’ has no member named ‘resizeDocks’
>           m_dockWindow->resizeDocks({m_generalDock, m_descriptionDock,
> m_previewD
>                         ^
> CMakeFiles/kphotoalbum.dir/build.make:3374: die Regel für Ziel
> „CMakeFiles/kphotoalbum.dir/AnnotationDialog/Dialog.cpp.o“ scheiterte
> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/kphotoalbum.dir/AnnotationDialog/Dialog.cpp.o]
> Fehler 1

Tobias made that code conditional in the latest master. This part should 
compile now...


Now, to the bigger issues:

Q: Do we want to support "old" Qt versions indefinitely?
A: Well, no - not without reason.
If we can't use new features in Qt and KDE frameworks in git master, we might 
as well stop adding new features alltogether.

Q: Do we want to support Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
A: Yes, because I (we?) think it's an important distro regarding our userbase.

Q: Are we able to support Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
A: Not without your help.

Naturally, the CI infrastructure of the KDE project is geared towards new 
versions of Qt and KDE frameworks. This is great for fixing new problems 
early, but not at all helping with remaining compatible with older package 
versions in distros out there.
A good package maintainer in the distro can reduce some of the strain, but in 
this case it wouldn't have helped because KPA 5.1 was not released until well 
after 16.04.
We (these days that means mostly Tobias and me) don't have the resources to 
test with additional distros.

Therefore: we need your help as a user. I know it might be tedious at times 
that things occasionally break. Your feedback is a welcome contribution to 
help us provide a good product to you and others!


I hope this clears some of the confusion...

Thanks,
  Johannes