Digikam 4.14.0 -> 5.3.0 - big update, some questions

[Jens Benecke-2]

Hello all,

I am trying to upgrade to Digikam 5.3 (currently using 4.14 on a Ubuntu
16.04 PC). So far the upgrade went smooth.

And **finally** video playback (broken in 5.2) and video thumbnails
(broken since 4.1x) work!
Thank you to all involved! :-)

I have a few questions though, Those might not be bugs but rather
settings problems, but I'd appreciate any help.

  * First of all, I can't seem to *change the **UI fonts*. I can change
    tree view and icon view fonts in Digikam's settings but not the font
    size of the UI  (tabs, menu, tooltips, face names on photos, etc). I
    installed "systemsettings" (KDE5) but in my Ubuntu Unity system it
    does not have a fonts option. Where/how can I set the rest of
    Digikam's UI fonts?

  * Interestingly, the*tree view font is not remembered* when I set it
    from within Digikam. This might actually be a bug.
    But while we're at it, I would rather have a "global font" option
    within Digikam than several different font options - for those not
    using KDE as a desktop this makes life much easier.

  * Then the *integration into Unity's global menu* doesn't work (yet).
    There is an 'appmenu-qt5' package but it doesn't seem to work. Any
    ideas?

  * Finally*some icons* (eg. in the settings sidebar) are still missing.
    This might be a packaging option.

Maybe somebody here has an idea? I'd appreciate any help.

Next, I'll try Digikam 5.3 on OS X where I plan to use it long term.

Thanks!

Le 12/11/2016 à 15:50, Jens Benecke a écrit :

>  * Then the *integration into Unity's global menu* doesn't work (yet).
>    There is an 'appmenu-qt5' package but it doesn't seem to work. Any
>    ideas?

by the way, could the integration use "digikam-5" or similar name not to
interfere with standard distro install?

thanks
jdd

[Jens Benecke-2]

> Am 12.11.2016 um 18:51 schrieb jdd <[hidden email]>:
>
> Le 12/11/2016 à 15:50, Jens Benecke a écrit :
>
>> * Then the *integration into Unity's global menu* doesn't work (yet).
>>   There is an 'appmenu-qt5' package but it doesn't seem to work. Any
>>   ideas?
>
> by the way, could the integration use "digikam-5" or similar name not to interfere with standard distro install?

Hi,
I have to correct this - menu integration works but the original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

However, I have found some others in the meantime:

* video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played back.

* when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works most of the time.

Are these issues known?

--
Jens Benecke - [hidden email]
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2016-11-13 22:49 GMT+01:00 Jens Benecke <[hidden email]>:

> Am 12.11.2016 um 18:51 schrieb jdd <[hidden email]>:
>
> Le 12/11/2016 à 15:50, Jens Benecke a écrit :
>
>> * Then the *integration into Unity's global menu* doesn't work (yet).
>>   There is an 'appmenu-qt5' package but it doesn't seem to work. Any
>>   ideas?
>
> by the way, could the integration use "digikam-5" or similar name not to interfere with standard distro install?

Hi,
I have to correct this - menu integration works but the original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

However, I have found some others in the meantime:

* video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played back.

* when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works most of the time.

Are these issues known?

none of that as i know...

Gilles Caulier

[Jens Benecke]

Hi,
I have to correct this - menu integration works but the original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

However, I have found some others in the meantime:

* video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played back.

* when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works most of the time.

Are these issues known?

none of that as i know...

Hi,

I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and there are some differences.

In the 5.4 appimage, 

- video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3 (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)

- the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)

- the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too large fonts for everything)

- Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed

So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu font settings). ;-)

Thank you!

-- 

Jens Benecke - [hidden email]

Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de

[Jens Benecke-2]

Hi,
I have to correct this - menu integration works but the original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

However, I have found some others in the meantime:

* video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played back.

* when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works most of the time.

Are these issues known?

none of that as i know...

Hi,

I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and there are some differences.

In the 5.4 appimage, 

- video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3 (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)

- the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)

- the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too large fonts for everything)

- Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed

So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu font settings). ;-)

Philip, can you help?

Thank you!

-- 

Jens Benecke - [hidden email]

Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de

[Gilles Caulier-4]

2016-11-20 23:41 GMT+01:00 Jens Benecke <[hidden email]>:

Hi,
I have to correct this - menu integration works but the original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

However, I have found some others in the meantime:

* video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played back.

* when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works most of the time.

Are these issues known?

none of that as i know...

Hi,

I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and there are some differences.

In the 5.4 appimage, 

- video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3 (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)

AppImage do not support yet video. This require to bundle GStreamer. I tried while one week and it's a big puzzle with plenty run-time dependencies. So i stopped my investigations for the moment.

 

Gilles Caulier

[Philip Johnsson]

I just made an update of digikam 5.3 with appstyles support. Not sure how much that will change what you are asking for.

When it comes to icons I can't update icons that are provided by KDE framworks as that would make package conflicts. As for now I also have to rely on icons that provided by the old digikam 4 as long as I keep the new digikam 5 packages in parallel with the old digikam 4 packages to be abled to be install in the same system as many users of my PPA have requested for some time.

Which icons are you having problems with when it comes to your installation that you see whe you use digikam 5?

Not sure I can do anything about play, paus and stop control icons for videos. I'm not sure it's a packaging issue but maybe something for developers or how QT5 is built for Ubuntu.

/Philip

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Jens Benecke <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,
I have to correct this - menu integration works but the original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

However, I have found some others in the meantime:

* video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played back.

* when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works most of the time.

Are these issues known?

none of that as i know...

Hi,

I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and there are some differences.

In the 5.4 appimage, 

- video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3 (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)

- the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)

- the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too large fonts for everything)

- Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed

So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu font settings). ;-)

Philip, can you help?

Thank you!

-- 

Jens Benecke - [hidden email]

Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de

[Jens Benecke-2]

Hi,

first, thank you for the packaging at all which make life easier for so
many of us!

Now, to do my part (help testing and report bugs :-) ): This is the 5.3
ubuntu ppa Digikam:

And this is the 5.4 appimage:

Differences I can see:

- smaller default / UI fonts (more similar to my Ubuntu settings),
- every toolbar item has an icon (with consistent styles),
- sidebar tab dimensions are more consistent and no missing icons
- the appimage does not integrate into the global menu.

Does the appImage use different KDE resources / defaults / config file
locations than the PPA packages?

Regarding video, Gilles has already replied, it seems to be an appImage
issue (or rather gstreamer issue).

Thank you!


Am 21.11.2016 um 16:30 schrieb Philip Johnsson:

> I just made an update of digikam 5.3 with appstyles support. Not sure
> how much that will change what you are asking for.
>
> When it comes to icons I can't update icons that are provided by KDE
> framworks as that would make package conflicts. As for now I also have
> to rely on icons that provided by the old digikam 4 as long as I keep
> the new digikam 5 packages in parallel with the old digikam 4 packages
> to be abled to be install in the same system as many users of my PPA
> have requested for some time.
>
> Which icons are you having problems with when it comes to your
> installation that you see whe you use digikam 5?
>
> Not sure I can do anything about play, paus and stop control icons for
> videos. I'm not sure it's a packaging issue but maybe something for
> developers or how QT5 is built for Ubuntu.
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Jens Benecke
> <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
> wrote:
>
>>         Hi,
>>         I have to correct this - menu integration works but the
>>         original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it
>>         manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it
>>         should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.
>>
>>         However, I have found some others in the meantime:
>>
>>         * video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play
>>         controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played
>>         back.
>>
>>         * when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the
>>         popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race
>>         condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very
>>         slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works
>>         most of the time.
>>
>>         Are these issues known?
>>
>>
>>     none of that as i know...
>
>     Hi,
>     I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and
>     there are some differences.
>
>     In the 5.4 appimage,
>     - video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3
>     (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)
>     - the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and
>     complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)
>     - the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too
>     large fonts for everything)
>     - Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed
>
>     So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses
>     the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to
>     set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install
>     the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu
>     font settings). ;-)
>
>     Philip, can you help?
>
>     Thank you!
>
>     --
>     Jens Benecke - [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
>     Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de
>     <http://www.spamfreemail.de/>
>
>
>

[Gilles Caulier-4]

2016-11-21 22:21 GMT+01:00 Jens Benecke <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

first, thank you for the packaging at all which make life easier for so many of us!

Now, to do my part (help testing and report bugs :-) ): This is the 5.3 ubuntu ppa Digikam:

And this is the 5.4 appimage:

Differences I can see:

- smaller default / UI fonts (more similar to my Ubuntu settings),
- every toolbar item has an icon (with consistent styles),
- sidebar tab dimensions are more consistent and no missing icons
- the appimage does not integrate into the global menu.

Does the appImage use different KDE resources / defaults / config file locations than the PPA packages?

We have only icons set which is bundled as well as a single file to speed up application. This include only Brezze. 

There is nothing about fonts.

That all.

Regarding video, Gilles has already replied, it seems to be an appImage issue (or rather gstreamer issue).

It's an issue with GStreamer. I'm lost to bundle it. It's so far complicated. Even if all components are compiled, linked and installed, the copy in bundle do not work. Qt5::Multimedia is not able to found GStreamer codecs (which are separated .so files). It's a puzzle that i hate a lots...

Gilles Caulier

[Jens Benecke-2]

Hi,

sorry, inline screenshots seem to have got lost in transit. Here are
some links.

first, thank you for the packaging at all which make life easier for so
many of us!

Now, to do my part (help testing and report bugs :-) ): This is the 5.3
ubuntu ppa Digikam vs. the 5.4 appimage:

https://root.rb-hosting.de/owncloud/public.php?service=gallery&t=48f6458dfb9761938c3f6f02aedb6182
pw: gagablabla

Differences I can see:

- smaller default / UI fonts (more similar to my Ubuntu settings),
- every toolbar item has an icon (with consistent styles),
- sidebar tab dimensions are more consistent and no missing icons
- the appimage does not integrate into the global menu but shows a
separate menubar.

Does the appImage use different KDE resources / defaults / config file
locations than the PPA packages?

Regarding video, Gilles has already replied, it seems to be an appImage
issue (or rather gstreamer issue).

Thank you!


Am 21.11.2016 um 16:30 schrieb Philip Johnsson:

> I just made an update of digikam 5.3 with appstyles support. Not sure
> how much that will change what you are asking for.
>
> When it comes to icons I can't update icons that are provided by KDE
> framworks as that would make package conflicts. As for now I also have
> to rely on icons that provided by the old digikam 4 as long as I keep
> the new digikam 5 packages in parallel with the old digikam 4 packages
> to be abled to be install in the same system as many users of my PPA
> have requested for some time.
>
> Which icons are you having problems with when it comes to your
> installation that you see whe you use digikam 5?
>
> Not sure I can do anything about play, paus and stop control icons for
> videos. I'm not sure it's a packaging issue but maybe something for
> developers or how QT5 is built for Ubuntu.
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Jens Benecke
> <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
> wrote:
>
>>         Hi,
>>         I have to correct this - menu integration works but the
>>         original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it
>>         manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it
>>         should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.
>>
>>         However, I have found some others in the meantime:
>>
>>         * video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play
>>         controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played
>>         back.
>>
>>         * when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the
>>         popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race
>>         condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very
>>         slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works
>>         most of the time.
>>
>>         Are these issues known?
>>
>>
>>     none of that as i know...
>
>     Hi,
>     I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and
>     there are some differences.
>
>     In the 5.4 appimage,
>     - video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3
>     (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)
>     - the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and
>     complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)
>     - the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too
>     large fonts for everything)
>     - Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed
>
>     So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses
>     the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to
>     set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install
>     the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu
>     font settings). ;-)
>
>     Philip, can you help?
>
>     Thank you!
>
>     --
>     Jens Benecke - [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
>     Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de
>     <http://www.spamfreemail.de/>
>
>
>

[Philip Johnsson]

Those icons shouldn't be missing as they are part of breeze icons for kde and are global system files and not just digikam files.

Just a wild shot but could you start digikam 5 from my PPA in english and see if that by any chance effect the icons? As my PPA combine installation of both digikam 4 and digikam 5 on the same system there might be strange things happening with the shared translation (mo-files) files between the two versions. Maybe that could give odd effects like this with different language?

/Philip

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Jens Benecke <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

sorry, inline screenshots seem to have got lost in transit. Here are some links.

first, thank you for the packaging at all which make life easier for so many of us!

Now, to do my part (help testing and report bugs :-) ): This is the 5.3 ubuntu ppa Digikam vs. the 5.4 appimage:

https://root.rb-hosting.de/owncloud/public.php?service=gallery&t=48f6458dfb9761938c3f6f02aedb6182
pw: gagablabla

Differences I can see:

- smaller default / UI fonts (more similar to my Ubuntu settings),
- every toolbar item has an icon (with consistent styles),
- sidebar tab dimensions are more consistent and no missing icons
- the appimage does not integrate into the global menu but shows a separate menubar.

Does the appImage use different KDE resources / defaults / config file locations than the PPA packages?

Regarding video, Gilles has already replied, it seems to be an appImage issue (or rather gstreamer issue).

Thank you!


Am 21.11.2016 um 16:30 schrieb Philip Johnsson:

I just made an update of digikam 5.3 with appstyles support. Not sure
how much that will change what you are asking for.

When it comes to icons I can't update icons that are provided by KDE
framworks as that would make package conflicts. As for now I also have
to rely on icons that provided by the old digikam 4 as long as I keep
the new digikam 5 packages in parallel with the old digikam 4 packages
to be abled to be install in the same system as many users of my PPA
have requested for some time.

Which icons are you having problems with when it comes to your
installation that you see whe you use digikam 5?

Not sure I can do anything about play, paus and stop control icons for
videos. I'm not sure it's a packaging issue but maybe something for
developers or how QT5 is built for Ubuntu.

/Philip


On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Jens Benecke
<[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>

wrote:

        Hi,
        I have to correct this - menu integration works but the
        original menu isn’t automatically hidden. I had to hide it
        manually, now the menu shows in the global menubar like it
        should. So this issue is closed, at least for me.

        However, I have found some others in the meantime:

        * video files, pausing and skipping doesn’t work, the play
        controls are disabled. I can only watch the file being played
        back.

        * when grouping photos by dragging them onto each other, the
        popup context menu doesn’t always appear. I suspect a race
        condition or something like that - when I move the mouse very
        slowly and stop before releasing the mouse button, it works
        most of the time.

        Are these issues known?


    none of that as i know...

    Hi,
    I now tried the 5.4 app image (vs. philip5’s 5.3 packages) and
    there are some differences.

    In the 5.4 appimage,
    - video playback does not work at all, it works fine in 5.3
    (without pause/repeat) and OS X (with full controls)
    - the icon set (for menus and buttons) seems consistent and
    complete (vs. missing icons and different sizes in 5.3)
    - the fonts look like KDE default fonts (5.3 seems to use far too
    large fonts for everything)
    - Bug #370150 regarding Geolocation seems fixed

    So, if I had a wish … I would like a 5.4 Ubuntu package that uses
    the complete icon set and sane KDE fonts (or some advice on how to
    set the KDE fonts on my Ubuntu system without having to install
    the whole of Kubuntu - or just make KDE/Digikam use the Ubuntu
    font settings). ;-)

    Philip, can you help?

    Thank you!

    --

    Jens Benecke - [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>
    Keine Lust auf Müll in ihrem Postfach? www.spamfreemail.de
    <http://www.spamfreemail.de/>