kipi-plugins-5 is missing almost all plugins

paraw

So, I just installed kipi-plugins-5.0.0, so I could finally update gwenview to a KF5 version, but it seems that all plugins except import/export have just disappeared. Am I doing something wrong, or is it just one more case of the developers telling us "you think you want it, but you don't"?

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

A lot of plugins were actually moved directly into digikam...

paraw · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 12:09 pm Post subject:

Yes, I saw that, but there are other programs that use kipi-plugins (gwenview is an example), and that are now left without.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

c2p · Apprentice Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 281 Location: Poland

Removal of most kipi-plugins makes gwenview pretty useless app. You can use Showfoto (installed with digikam) for simple photo viewing. But I can't find any way to resize multiple images at once, which I used to do in gwenview:4.
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

'importer', which is what you are probably looking for, was not yet ported to kf5. It is part of the gwenview tarball and needs someone to pick it up.

c2p · Apprentice Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 281 Location: Poland

I meant Plugins->Batch Processing->Resize Images. In Gwenview:5 there isn't any of batch processing plugins.
https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gwenview-Batch-edition.jpg

It is really frustrating that KDE guys didn't learn anything and they repeat the same mistakes they made in case of KDE4 which was nearly unusable until version 4.5.
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

Some KDE developers might disagree with you and be frustrated that people think this code would just port to KF5/Qt5 by itself.

Anyway, kipi-plugins is not maintained by 'the KDE guys' but by 'the digikam guy' and he decided to move these plugins into digikam in the process of porting to KF5/Qt5 and become platform independent (read: MacOS, Windows).

russellD · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:48 am Post subject:

After finding that Gwenview plugins no longer did batch resizing or any thing much any more, I found a solution that was as easy as the old Gwenview!

Which is to use a plugin in Gimp called Batch Image Manipulation Plugin or "BIMP"

Discussion here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/26259
src here: https://github.com/alessandrofrancesconi/gimp-plugin-bimp/releases/tag/v1.17

It compiled and installed in an snap.
The included "Readme" has all the details.

And was able to complete a mission critical bulk photo resize for work!

Hope this helps!