Bug 404939

Right. And this feature was remove from AppImage toolkit. The job is now delegate to the sandbox service used by AppImage.

So as i understand, there is nothing to do in digiKam AppImage. Icons and metadata files for this features are already present.

Gilles Caulier

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

Many thanks for all this work. I downloaded and installed the new package in a home/Applications directory. It works fine, however I have not seen any integration with the OS, or any option to do it. I was not prompted for integration. When running, I have the icon in the launch bar, that's nice, but no way to stick it to the launch bar to transform it into a launcher. Also, the OS does not register Digikam in the application list. May be there is something I'm doing wrong. I have searched a bit the internet, and read that the folder home/Applications should be a right place to put appimage files. May be I should try other places... I will report any improvement I may found.
Regards.

It's well explained here :

https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimages-desktop-integration-and-how-to-achieve-it/305

Gilles Caulier

As i understand, the job is now delegate to the desktop (KDE or Gnome for example) through a dedicated application which will :

- know all applications available in a store (something like Apple).
- be able to download the bundle selected by the user.
- install the bundle in the home directory, and register the application to the desktop menu.
- The process can be certainly applied to a bundle previously downloaded by the user.

KDE provide an application named Discover.

https://userbase.kde.org/Discover

https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/gnome-software

This last one as plugin to handle flatpak and Snap bundles, 2 others projects similar than AppImage.

Gilles Caulier

Look also this page about AppImageLaucher which can register local bundle in the desktop :

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/04/easily-run-and-integrate-appimage-files.html

Gilles Caulier

It's well explained in this project page :

https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

Gilles Caulier

Thanks for the help and the link to appimagelauncher. I installed it. It works flawlessly with Digikam 6.0.0: icon on the launcher and integration in the list of softwares. Great !
 However, it does not work with Digikam 6.1 beta. Digikam is not launched, and therefore, no icon is displayed. I do not know how to get a trace of it (don't know how to run it from a terminal...)

I think that some tunes must be done with 6.1.0 AppImage while building the final bundles, especially when selecting which shared libs must be used from the host linux or not. I see some problems from users starting to use it.

To run the AppImage bundles from command line, it's very simple :

1/ Open a console and go to the directory storing the file.
2/ Set the file executable.
3/ Start it as well.

From my Linux box :

[gilles@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/gilles
[gilles@localhost ~]$ cd Downloads/
[gilles@localhost Downloads]$ ls -al
total 482124
drwxr-xr-x  2 gilles gilles      4096 mars   8 10:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 53 gilles gilles      4096 mars   7 15:55 ../
-rw-rw-r--  1 gilles gilles 493674216 mars   8 10:41 digikam-6.1.0-git-20190307T101229-x86-64.appimage
-rw-rw-r--  1 gilles gilles       130 nov.   9 13:48 .directory
[gilles@localhost Downloads]$ chmod +x ./digikam-6.1.0-git-20190307T101229-x86-64.appimage
[gilles@localhost Downloads]$ ls -al
total 482124
drwxr-xr-x  2 gilles gilles      4096 mars   8 10:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 53 gilles gilles      4096 mars   7 15:55 ../
-rwxrwxr-x  1 gilles gilles 493674216 mars   8 10:41 digikam-6.1.0-git-20190307T101229-x86-64.appimage*
-rw-rw-r--  1 gilles gilles       130 nov.   9 13:48 .directory
[gilles@localhost Downloads]$ ./digikam-6.1.0-git-20190307T101229-x86-64.appimage 
libfreetype.so
libudev.so
-- digiKam AppImage Bundle
-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam application
-- Preloading shared libs: :/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so:/usr/lib64/libudev.so
Digikam::DXmlGuiWindow::setupIconTheme: Breeze icons resource file found
Digikam::AlbumWatch::AlbumWatch: AlbumWatch use QFileSystemWatcher
Digikam::AlbumManager::setDatabase: Database Parameters:
   Type:                     "QSQLITE"
   DB Core Name:             "/mnt/data/photos/digikam4.db"
   DB Thumbs Name:           "/mnt/data/photos/thumbnails-digikam.db"
   DB Face Name:             "/mnt/data/photos/recognition.db"
   DB Similarity Name:      "/mnt/data/photos/similarity.db"
   Connect Options:          ""
   Host Name:                ""
   Host port:                -1
   Internal Server:          false
   Internal Server Path:     ""
   Internal Server Serv Cmd: ""
   Internal Server Init Cmd: ""
   Username:                 ""
   Password:                 ""

Digikam::DbEngineConfigSettingsLoader::readConfig: Loading SQL code from config file "/tmp/.mount_digika5iLvpc/usr/share/digikam/database/dbconfig.xml"
Digikam::DbEngineConfigSettingsLoader::readConfig: Checking XML version ID => expected:  3  found:  3
Digikam::CoreDbSchemaUpdater::update: Core database: running schema update
...

The solution to use appimagelauncher to register digiKam AppImage 6.0.0 in desktop solve your problem.

For your new problem with 6.1.0, see bug #405233

I close this file now.

GilleS Caulier