KPhotoAlbum on Windows?

[Tobias Leupold]

E-Mail von Teemu Hämäläinen vom Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2024, 14:17:30 MEZ:
> Hi,
> 
> Once upon a time, there was a big promise that Qt/KDE would provide easy 
> cross-platform portability...
> If I remember correctly, years ago there also was some guidance on how 
> to compile/run KPhotoAlbum on Windows, but I have searched those now 
> without success.
> Any pointers for this - how to compile, or information if there any 
> clear showstoppers (libraries used that are not available on Win)?
> 
> I have around 60000 images annotated with KPhotoalbum. I'm happy running 
> it on Linux, but part of my family would need it to be accessible on 
> Windows as well.
> 
> An acceptable alternative approach would be to get guidance on how to 
> automatically transfer the tagging information from KPA to some similar 
> application running on Windows.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Teemu

Hi Teemu,

I can only speak of me: Concerning KPA and KDE, I'm a Linux-only user. It may 
be possible to compile KPA along with the needed dependencies on Windows as 
well, but I have no clue about that. Building a plain Qt program on Linux, 
Windows and macOS is not a big deal, I do that e.g. with muckturnier.org. But 
KPA depends on all kind of KDE stuff, so I think it's more complicated.

I don't think that we currently plan to officially support KPA for Windows, or 
that any of the dev team tried to compile KPA on Windows, at least for the 
last 10 years since I joined KPA.

Also, due to the lack of Windows usage/knowledge from my side, I have no idea 
about photo management software for Windows, and if there exists something 
similar. However, I don't think that anyone developing KPA would put work in 
some tool to migrate away from KPA ...

Johannes, maybe you can comment on this?

Cheers, Tobias