How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

[Dmitri Popov-2]

Hello,

I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a
charm. I wonder, though, whether it's possible to replace the default
splash screen with a custom one. In a regular digiKam installation,
it's enough to replace the splash-digikam.png file in
/usr/share/digikam/data/. But that obviously wouldn't work with the
AppImage version.

Thank you,
Dmitri

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi Dmitri,

AppImage is a self contained bundle. It's a ISO9660 mount and decompressed in memory. So the content is read only. You cannot change the splash-screen.

To see content, try :

mkdir ./temp && mount ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage ./temp && ls -al ./temp

So typically, if you want a new option somewhere to customize splash-screen in the future, open a new file in bugzilla.

Best

Gilles

2017-01-18 10:06 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a
charm. I wonder, though, whether it's possible to replace the default
splash screen with a custom one. In a regular digiKam installation,
it's enough to replace the splash-digikam.png file in
/usr/share/digikam/data/. But that obviously wouldn't work with the
AppImage version.

Thank you,
Dmitri

[Dmitri Popov-2]

Thank you for your reply, Gilles! No need to open a bug, I was just curious. :-)

Best,
Dmitri

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Gilles Caulier
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Dmitri,
>
> AppImage is a self contained bundle. It's a ISO9660 mount and decompressed
> in memory. So the content is read only. You cannot change the splash-screen.
>
> To see content, try :
>
> mkdir ./temp && mount ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage ./temp && ls -al
> ./temp
>
> So typically, if you want a new option somewhere to customize splash-screen
> in the future, open a new file in bugzilla.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles
>
> 2017-01-18 10:06 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a
>> charm. I wonder, though, whether it's possible to replace the default
>> splash screen with a custom one. In a regular digiKam installation,
>> it's enough to replace the splash-digikam.png file in
>> /usr/share/digikam/data/. But that obviously wouldn't work with the
>> AppImage version.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Dmitri
>
>

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Note : AppImage can take options on command line. For ex :

- ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage showfoto => start Showfoto instead digiKam

-./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage debug => run digiKam in debuuger to get crash backtrace.

More options will come with next version.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 11:09 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:

Thank you for your reply, Gilles! No need to open a bug, I was just curious. :-)

Best,
Dmitri

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Gilles Caulier
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi Dmitri,
>
> AppImage is a self contained bundle. It's a ISO9660 mount and decompressed
> in memory. So the content is read only. You cannot change the splash-screen.
>
> To see content, try :
>
> mkdir ./temp && mount ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage ./temp && ls -al
> ./temp
>
> So typically, if you want a new option somewhere to customize splash-screen
> in the future, open a new file in bugzilla.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles
>
> 2017-01-18 10:06 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a
>> charm. I wonder, though, whether it's possible to replace the default
>> splash screen with a custom one. In a regular digiKam installation,
>> it's enough to replace the splash-digikam.png file in
>> /usr/share/digikam/data/. But that obviously wouldn't work with the
>> AppImage version.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Dmitri
>
>

[Dan Dascalescu]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:

I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.

Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't. 

[AndriusWild]

Rsync to a network drive?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Dan Dascalescu <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 8:59 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:

I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.

Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't. 

[Gilles Caulier-4]

The current AppImage use SDK version 1. I suspect that options to update need SDK version 2 which still in beta stage.

So i recommend to open a new file in bugzilla about this topic. But this must include other bundle for MAcOS and Windows. Something like FireFox or LibreOffice, with a web repository check to see if new release is available.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:01 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

Rsync to a network drive?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Dan Dascalescu <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 8:59 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:

I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.

Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't. 

[Remco Viëtor]

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.
Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

[Gilles Caulier-4]

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

[AndriusWild]

I would focus on something more important though. For example, yesterday digiKam crashed when I added a face region. I did not submit a bug report yet but I will if the issue occurs again.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

[Gilles Caulier-4]

If you use 5.4.0, i recommend to try 5.5.0 pre version, which include a lots of improvements done on Face Management.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Look NEWS file for details :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/NEWS

2017-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

I would focus on something more important though. For example, yesterday digiKam crashed when I added a face region. I did not submit a bug report yet but I will if the issue occurs again.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

[Antonio Trincone]

Can anyone now confirm that Appimage works like a charm even in the case of "Open with..." command added to menubar and will open the file selected, for example, in Darktable if one choose that program?

Many thanks for answers.

Antonio

Il giorno mer 18 gen 2017 alle ore 18:42 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> ha scritto:

If you use 5.4.0, i recommend to try 5.5.0 pre version, which include a lots of improvements done on Face Management.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Look NEWS file for details :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/NEWS

2017-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

I would focus on something more important though. For example, yesterday digiKam crashed when I added a face region. I did not submit a bug report yet but I will if the issue occurs again.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

--

[Gilles Caulier-4]

yes,

Maik has just fixed a problem is file dialog icon provider for icon view thumbnail.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 19:42 GMT+01:00 Antonio Trincone <[hidden email]>:

Can anyone now confirm that Appimage works like a charm even in the case of "Open with..." command added to menubar and will open the file selected, for example, in Darktable if one choose that program?

Many thanks for answers.

Antonio

Il giorno mer 18 gen 2017 alle ore 18:42 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> ha scritto:

If you use 5.4.0, i recommend to try 5.5.0 pre version, which include a lots of improvements done on Face Management.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Look NEWS file for details :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/NEWS

2017-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

I would focus on something more important though. For example, yesterday digiKam crashed when I added a face region. I did not submit a bug report yet but I will if the issue occurs again.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

--

[AndriusWild]

I am amazed how frequent you guys release new versions.

I will check the 5.5.0 pre-release version out for sure.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you use 5.4.0, i recommend to try 5.5.0 pre version, which include a lots of improvements done on Face Management.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Look NEWS file for details :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/NEWS

2017-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

I would focus on something more important though. For example, yesterday digiKam crashed when I added a face region. I did not submit a bug report yet but I will if the issue occurs again.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...

[Gilles Caulier-4]

For the next 5.5.0, the CLI option of AppImage will be :

[gilles@localhost digikam5]$ ./digikam-5.5.0-01-x86-64.appimage help

digiKam AppImage bundle CLI options:

 without option     : run digiKam.

 <showfoto>         : run Showfoto instead digiKam.

 <debug>            : run digiKam into GDB.

 <debug> <showfoto> : run Showfoto into GDB.

 <help>             : show this help.

You can continue to pass showfoto and digiKam extra arguments as usual.

ex to show showfoto help : 

[gilles@localhost digikam5]$ ./digikam-5.5.0-01-x86-64.appimage showfoto --help

...

Usage: showfoto [options] [file(s) or folder(s)]

Manage your photographs like a professional, with the power of open source

Options:

  -v, --version              Displays version information.

  -h, --help                 Displays this help.

  --author                   Show author information.

  --license                  Show license information.

  --desktopfile <file name>  The base file name of the desktop entry for this

                             application.

Arguments:

  files                      File(s) or folder(s) to open

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 12:10 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

Note : AppImage can take options on command line. For ex :

- ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage showfoto => start Showfoto instead digiKam

-./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage debug => run digiKam in debuuger to get crash backtrace.

More options will come with next version.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 11:09 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:

Thank you for your reply, Gilles! No need to open a bug, I was just curious. :-)

Best,
Dmitri

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Gilles Caulier
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi Dmitri,
>
> AppImage is a self contained bundle. It's a ISO9660 mount and decompressed
> in memory. So the content is read only. You cannot change the splash-screen.
>
> To see content, try :
>
> mkdir ./temp && mount ./digikam-5.4.0-x86_64.appimage ./temp && ls -al
> ./temp
>
> So typically, if you want a new option somewhere to customize splash-screen
> in the future, open a new file in bugzilla.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles
>
> 2017-01-18 10:06 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a
>> charm. I wonder, though, whether it's possible to replace the default
>> splash screen with a custom one. In a regular digiKam installation,
>> it's enough to replace the splash-digikam.png file in
>> /usr/share/digikam/data/. But that obviously wouldn't work with the
>> AppImage version.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Dmitri
>
>

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Yes,

The bundle can be now compiled quickly, to press a simple button (one script to start).

The compilation to update one bundle take around 45mns, with uploading to GDrive.

I spend personalty few months to optimize and finalize all bash script to build bundles. It start to be very powerful, to track / kill bugs, and to test / promote new features with pre-release.

The KDE dependencies reduction increase a lots the stability, especially on non Linux system. I sure that it's the way to continue. It still 15/20% of core dependencies, and i will continue to drop all the possible. The goal : be able to provide a pure Qt5 application. The 'K' in digiKam will be a simple legacy in the future.

We have 2 new motivated contributors : Simon who is interested to improve Group features, and Mario who have already improved Similarity search. This last one start to hack Face Management.

I have been contacted by 2 students for this summer : one to rewrite face recognition algorithm, another one to work on UPNP/DLNA database export.

Perhaps a 3rd one will work on database core, it's not yet sure...

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 20:25 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

I am amazed how frequent you guys release new versions.

I will check the 5.5.0 pre-release version out for sure.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you use 5.4.0, i recommend to try 5.5.0 pre version, which include a lots of improvements done on Face Management.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Look NEWS file for details :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/NEWS

2017-01-18 18:31 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]>:

I would focus on something more important though. For example, yesterday digiKam crashed when I added a face region. I did not submit a bug report yet but I will if the issue occurs again.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-01-18 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: How to change splash screen in digiKam AppImage?

With FireFox and LibreOffice, a warning appear and ask you to process or not.

There are also one option to disable new version check.

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-18 17:24 GMT+01:00 Remco Viëtor <[hidden email]>:

On mercredi 18 janvier 2017 07:59:12 CET Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I switched to the AppImage version of digiKam, and it works like a charm.
>
> Is there a way to make the AppImage self-updating?
>
> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/133 suggests there isn't.

Would you really want that? I prefer getting an announcement when there's a
new version, and decide _myself_ if/when I'm going to get it...