[KPhotoAlbum] no kipi plugins in kphotoalbum on fedora 25

[g]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone else has come across this problem
I have been using kphotoalbum happily over many years, but on a machine
I setup a few months ago with fedora 25, I do not see the thumbnails
when browsing. I can see an image if I click on the rectangle where the
thumbnails should be.
When I go to the preferences and look for the plugin settings I see none
available, although I have installed every kipi plugin rpm in the
distribution.

Does this ring any bells?

Thanks

[Andreas Schleth]

Hi G,

yes, it rings.

Some time ago I noticed that the Kipi plugins are going down the drain,
as it seems that the digicam community has decided to incorporate a lot
of their functionality directly into digicam. So these most useful
plugins get scrapped while everything else is being ported to QT5 / KF5
libraries.

However, if you were able to pick up some of these old QT4-versions and
port them to QT5 yourself you could do some good to everybody using
different tools than digicam.

Best regards, Andreas

Post by g
Hi,
I wonder if anyone else has come across this problem
I have been using kphotoalbum happily over many years, but on a machine
I setup a few months ago with fedora 25, I do not see the thumbnails
when browsing. I can see an image if I click on the rectangle where the
thumbnails should be.
When I go to the preferences and look for the plugin settings I see none
available, although I have installed every kipi plugin rpm in the
distribution.
Does this ring any bells?
Thanks
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[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Hi,

Post by Andreas Schleth
Some time ago I noticed that the Kipi plugins are going down the drain,
as it seems that the digicam community has decided to incorporate a lot
of their functionality directly into digicam. So these most useful
plugins get scrapped while everything else is being ported to QT5 / KF5
libraries.

Yes, that is an unfortunate development, and it equally affects programs like
gwenview.

Post by Andreas Schleth
However, if you were able to pick up some of these old QT4-versions and
port them to QT5 yourself you could do some good to everybody using
different tools than digicam.

This might be a good task for anyone interested in becoming a KDE developer…

Johannes

[Matthias Füssel]

Hi!

However, if you were able to pick up some of these old QT4-versions and port
them to QT5 yourself you could do some good to everybody using different
tools than digicam.

I've had the same idea and have started work on a kipi-plugins fork that
brings back some of the missing plugins:
https://github.com/matthias-fue/kipi-plugins

For now, only the geo locator plugin has been brought back. Next on my list
is the adjust time plugin.

Regards,
Matthias

[Joe]

Thank you.

Post by Matthias Füssel
Hi!

However, if you were able to pick up some of these old QT4-versions and port
them to QT5 yourself you could do some good to everybody using different
tools than digicam.

I've had the same idea and have started work on a kipi-plugins fork that
https://github.com/matthias-fue/kipi-plugins
For now, only the geo locator plugin has been brought back. Next on my list
is the adjust time plugin.
Regards,
Matthias
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