Most of AppImage packages proposes an integration with the OS at the first run. It means there may be an icon in the launcher, the software will be registered with the other softwares in the OS, etc. It seems that the current version of digikam appimage does not provide this integration.
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