Bug 371536

Summary:	Enhancement: native 360-panosphere viewer support
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Tim <kde>
Component:	Preview-Image	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugs.kde.org, caulier.gilles, digikam.jo, guilherme.peev, jose_oliver, martin.tlustos, sawser, tahariel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	8.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
URL:	http://misc.sty.nu/fused_I_20161022_141705.jpg
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Tim 2016-10-23 17:03:33 UTC

(Sorry if this is not the best component - please reassign if necessary.)

I'm new to the world of 360 spherical panoramas, having just acquired an LG 360 Cam device. The URL above is one of my early results. (It's been through enfuse for HDR exposure blending, but the EXIF is maintained intact.)

1) Flickr and Facebook have viewers for these things. It would be nice if digiKam had one too in image-preview mode. (See e.g.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/marccecasestecnologia/26661819964/ and https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-sphere/ .)

2) Editing will be a bit tricky, but it would be useful to be able to edit the default orientation visually too.

I observe bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346053 exists but that seems to deal with the metadata side of things. That might be related but doesn't seem like a duplicate.

Many thanks in advance!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Martin Tlustos 2017-03-14 09:06:31 UTC

Yeah, that would be great!

Comment 2 Theliel 2020-03-09 02:20:18 UTC

I have to admit that until recently I didn't know about digicam (Windows user). I was looking for a good open source photo manager to manage, small photo editions, easy masive tagging... ... and with a decent facial recognition software.

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised, the only thing I miss for now is, effectively, a photosphere viewer. 

+1 for native 360º viewer, maybe with different projections options

Comment 3 Guilherme Peev dos Santos 2021-05-11 15:45:12 UTC

+1. Also want this feature.

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2021-07-30 13:34:29 UTC

Maik,

This file can be proposed in the future as a new GoSC project for students.

Gilles

Comment 5 Maik Qualmann 2023-02-28 20:41:30 UTC

*** Bug 466593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 digikam.jo 2023-10-12 10:07:46 UTC

I just migrated to digiKam and a native 360º viewer looks like one of the last pieces to make it a perfect solution for photo management/viewing.

Comment 7 Terence Eden 2025-06-07 14:31:19 UTC

I'd also like to view photospheres / equirectangular images.

On Linux, the only way I've found to view them is https://www.fsoft.it/FSPViewer/ - which is free but not Open Source.

There's also https://pannellum.org/ - which is web / JS based.

I'm not sure if either of them can be easily integrated into DigiKam though.

Is there a way to set an external program as a viewer only for a specific type of file?

Comment 8 caulier.gilles 2025-06-07 15:29:32 UTC

If this kind of format is registered in the desktop tpye-mime database to open a specific application, this will be available in Open-With context menu.

Comment 9 Terence Eden 2025-06-07 17:02:36 UTC

(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #8)
> If this kind of format is registered in the desktop tpye-mime database to

They're just .jpg files. They have an EXIF tag which says that they're a panoramic image. I don't think there's a way to open files in a different app based on the EXIF contents - but very happy to be proved wrong.

Comment 10 ajadda 2025-07-23 14:13:56 UTC

+1
digikam has been my preferred image organizer for some time now. A spherical viewer would complete the product for me.

If there is no dedicated viewer, then at least there should be the option to select the “Spherical Viewer” (Mac) via “Open with.” Unfortunately, this is not available there, even though it is installed.