Bug 367518 - "Plugins" menu doesn't do anything
Summary: "Plugins" menu doesn't do anything
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344675
Alias: None
Product: gwenview
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: Other (add details in bug description)
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gwenview Bugs
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Reported: 2016-08-18 15:51 UTC by KDE Neon user
Modified: 2016-11-02 18:01 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description KDE Neon user 2016-08-18 15:51:35 UTC
On Gwenview 16.04.3, there's a "Plugins" menu, but nothing happens when I click on it. It should have the option to add new plugins, at least show an entry to tell me where or how to get plugins.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Menak Vishap 2016-08-28 00:08:35 UTC
Confirm the situation for the Neon developers unstable. The plugins are working well in other distributions (tested in openSUSE Leap 42.1, KaOS, Manjaro, Mageia Cauldron), but are unavailable in all Ubuntu-based distributions including Neon.
Comment 2 Lehel 2016-10-07 07:02:35 UTC
This does happens indeed with the latest LinuxMint 18 KDE 'Sarah' too, which is based on 16.04 (Xenial):

~ $ kded5 -v
kded5 5.23.0
~ $ plasmashell -v
plasmashell 5.6.5

kipi.library: UI file : "/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kipi/kipiplugin_kxmlhelloworldui.rc"
kipi.library: Loaded plugin  "KXMLHelloWorld"

Any workaround, fix, eta?
Comment 3 Lehel 2016-10-07 08:09:19 UTC
Well, the following workaround worked for me:

- remove current gwenview version (aka: 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1)
- install the following:

http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/g/gwenview/gwenview_4.14.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa1_amd64.deb
(with the following dependency: )
http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/pool/main/e/exiv2/libexiv2-12_0.23-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Plugins work again. :)
Comment 4 Knut Hildebrandt 2016-10-07 11:19:24 UTC
(In reply to Lehel from comment #3)
> Well, the following workaround worked for me:
> 
> - remove current gwenview version (aka: 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1)
> - install the following:
>
> ...
>
> Plugins work again. :)

won't work for me, since I'm on Chakra Linux. But I have one question. Does that workaround bring back meta data support to the plugin menu?
Comment 5 Lehel 2016-10-07 17:51:07 UTC
Well, you're right - that's a no go, and most under the Images menu, though the rest - Tools/Import/Export looking good.

No go, aka goes in to Segfault:
Application: Gwenview (gwenview), signal: Segmentation fault
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f256c74e980 (LWP 11685))]

Also, found a similar Bug reported here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344675
Comment 6 Piotr 2016-10-18 17:24:13 UTC
Kubuntu LTS 16.x, gwenview shows no kipi plugins. Wonder why it is called LTS? Anyone knows what is going on with gwenview? Why it is not working with kipi plugins in 16.x LTS distro?
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2016-10-19 04:16:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 344675 ***
Comment 8 Piotr 2016-10-27 19:56:25 UTC
If you want to have gwenview and kipi plugins (and digikam5) on ubuntu/kubuntu family use this ppa
http://ppa.launchpad.net/philip5/extra/ubuntu/
Comment 9 Alex Loes 2016-11-02 09:06:58 UTC
(In reply to piotergmoter from comment #8)
> If you want to have gwenview and kipi plugins (and digikam5) on
> ubuntu/kubuntu family use this ppa
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/philip5/extra/ubuntu/

I have added this ppa to my System (Mint 18, based on kubuntu16.04 64bit), reinstalled gwenview and kipi-plugis, but now gwenview shows me: No plugins installed.
Comment 10 Piotr 2016-11-02 18:01:12 UTC
Well, hard to say, maybe ask package maintainer. On my kubuntu 16.04 they are working although are much less (from my point of view) usable than those from kde4.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371820