Bug 402620

Summary: AppImage digiKam does not respect desktop default application setting
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Affidavit Donda <c_a>
Component: Bundle-AppImageAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, gerhard, metzpinguin, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 6.3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Appimage   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Affidavit Donda 2018-12-27 22:15:15 UTC 
SUMMARY

AppImage digiKam does not respect the default application setting (geeqie for jpg) of the running KDE system, see below for details.

Related problems:
– The right click "Open With..." application menu is empty, even though in Dolphin the same action shows 7 applications, the first one of which (and default) is geeqie.
– If I enter "geeqie" manually in the "Open With..." menu, it is started. However, if I before select "Remember application association", this changes neither the default application (Meta-F4) nor the empty application list.
– However, in Dolphin, the "Open With..." menu does show geeqie as the added remembered application, though this is superfluous; geeqie is already in the list.

In summary, it appears that AppImage digiKam is unable to read file association information from the running KDE system, even though it writes to it (faultily).

A simple solution might be if digiKam does not try to access KDE file association information, but if Meta-F4 simply called xdg-open (which does the right thing).


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. run digiKam 5.9.0 AppImage
2. select an image
3. press Meta-F4


OBSERVED RESULT

The internal image editor starts, just as with simple F4.


EXPECTED RESULT

The default application for the file should start. In this case, the file is a jpg, and the default application in KDE for it is geeqie. This is confirmed by clicking the same file in Dolphin, which does start geeqie.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 / plasmashell 5.8.6
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: plasmashell 5.8.6
KDE Frameworks Version: KDE Frameworks 5.42.0
Qt Version: Qt 5.9.3 (built against 5.9.3)


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2018-12-27 22:25:48 UTC 
Yes, that seems to be dependent on the current distribution. Here at openSUSE Tumbleweed the digiKam "Open with..." menu in the AppImage has the same entries as the native Dolphin.

Maik
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2018-12-31 08:38:14 UTC 
this problem is always reproducible using last 6.0.0 beta 3 ?
Comment 3 Affidavit Donda 2019-01-01 16:31:46 UTC 
I just tested with digikam-6.0.0-beta3-20181228T114626-x86-64.appimage, and yes, it is exactly the same.
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2019-03-06 15:33:05 UTC 
Good news,

After 2 weeks of works, the Linux AppImage bundle 64 bits is now reconstructed from scratch with:

- All OpenCV options for CUDA, OPenMP, and OPenCL disabled
- A large upgrade of Qt5 from 5.9.7 to 5.11.3.
- An upgrade to KF5 5.55.
- An upgrade to Ffmpeg 3.3.9
- The fontconfig/freetype integration in the bundle to reduce system dependencies


Files can be downloaded here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Please test and report.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2019-03-20 13:45:40 UTC 
Donda,

After 3 weeks of work, i finally completed the compilation of AppImage using Qt 5.11.3 + QWebkit 5.212.

New 6.1.0 pre-release AppImage bundle can be found here (64 bits only for the
moment) :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Please check if the problem remain.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2019-08-24 09:21:42 UTC 
What's about this file using 6.2.0 AppImage bundle ?

https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/6.2.0/digikam-6.2.0-x86-64.appimage.mirrorlist

Gilles Caulier
Comment 7 Affidavit Donda 2019-08-27 17:33:40 UTC 
> What's about this file using 6.2.0 AppImage bundle ?
> 
> https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/6.2.0/digikam-6.2.0-x86-64.appimage.
> mirrorlist
> 
> Gilles Caulier

The menu entry "Item / Open with default application" and the associated shortcut (changed to Ctrl-F4?) now work.

The list of applications under "Open with..." is still empty.(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #6)
Comment 8 Gerhard Hoogterp 2019-09-18 06:28:17 UTC 
Operating System: Kubuntu 19.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2
Kernel Version: 5.0.0-27-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 15,6 GiB of RAM

The "open with" is empty where it's filled in Dolphin and the like.
Comment 9 Maik Qualmann 2019-09-18 16:29:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 408878 ***
Comment 10 caulier.gilles 2020-01-15 05:14:06 UTC 
Not reproducible with 7.0.0 beta2