https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368001
Bug ID: 368001
Summary: plugins menu entry empty without kipi-plugins
Product: gwenview
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: gwenview-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: sit...@kde.org
CC: myr...@kde.org
gwenview can be built with libkipi (kde applications), if kipi-plugins
(digikam) aren't installed there won't be anything to list though.
when built with libkipi a 'Plugins' menu entry becomes available, without
kipi-plugins however this entry has no nodes making it look broken.
Reproducible: Always
Expected Results:
3 ways to solve this come to mind
# No plugins = No menu
When no plugins are available the menu doesn't get shown. So the visibility
condition changes from (builtWithLibKipi) to (builtWithLibKipi &&
!pluginsList.isEmpty). With this a user is expected to know that kipi-plugins
should be installed to gain additional features. Alternatively installing
digikam will also enhance gwenview's capabilities.
# Custom install rigging
When no plugins are available a "fake" menu entry is created which employs a
simple addon-install mechanic as seen in drkonqi to let distributions install
kipi-plugins on demand. Namely this would call an executable that is meant to
install kipi-plugins through whatever way necessary exitign either 0 or !0 from
which gwenview can deduce whether or not it needs to reload the plugin list.
# Install through appstream
Alternatively we could solve this through appstream by having kipi-plugins
provide a "global" metainfo file for "standard kipi plugins" or something
alike, from gwenview we still have a fake menu entry but instead of calling out
to some custom code it simply runs appstream://org.kde.kipi-plugins.desktop,
which will bring up the desktop's software center to install kipi plugins.
# We always want them
kipi-plugins should be considered as a runtime requirement, to communicate this
to distributors a runtime dependency information should be included in
gwenview's cmake output.
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