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Weired Things Going on in KDE-verse - Subbotage ?

Hi,

If it wasn't affecting me (and tons of other people) and if these were separate incidents, I wouldn't believe. But now I am getting suspicious. Very suspicious. Foll me once? OK, fool me twice? Maybe. But third time, well, ,... I don't belive in coincidences.

So what happened:

First, KDE removed support of Alliance for Open Media AVIF (SDDM, Login, Wallpaper, Gwenview, Dolphin…),;
Second KDE removed support for ALL RAW types of files (Sony ARW, Nicon NEF, and so on) - Gwenview ;
Third KDE removed support for photos in Okular (epub files are missing photos, e.g.. tutorials and screenshots in  PCLinuxOS Magazine are useless now without photos, contrary mupdf, mupdf-gl is displaying photos fine)

Don't tell me that someone isn't being paid by MS there in KDE e.v. What is going on?

Re: Weired Things Going on in KDE-verse - Subbotage ?

Reply #1 –
Things may have changed but I believe okular uses a very old and unmaintained epub backend?  Use something else if it's not working and / or submit a bug report.

I have avif support in dolphin and gwenview.
Both raw formats work for me in dolphin but neither in gwenview.

I think it's more likely a bug than MS trying to destroy KDE.

What should help with dolphin is install libavif and libraw.
Have you tried digikam ?

Re: Weired Things Going on in KDE-verse - Subbotage ?

Reply #2 –
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Things may have changed but I believe okular uses a very old and unmaintained epub backend?  Use something else if it's not working and / or submit a bug report.

I have avif support in dolphin and gwenview.
Both raw formats work for me in dolphin but neither in gwenview.

I think it's more likely a bug than MS trying to destroy KDE.

What should help with dolphin is install libavif and libraw.
Have you tried digikam ?



I compiled mupdf with gl support for epubs and now I am using it for pdf as well. They haven't fixed it since long time.
As for RAW support- they removed it somehow (libraw is there). Libavif was fixed by kimigeformats recompliing by KDE (reinstating avif support in "avif.so", which was there, but lacked avif support anyway. So avif support was strpped from "avif.so", which was in "kimageformats' . Who would do this in the first place? Go to kimageformats, go to avif.so then removed avif support from avif.so and then put it back into kimageformats? Ah, don't think that this was coincidence.

So not to bother you it was like this:
1. Removal of free and open media support (ogg in Elisa- the default music player cannot list ogg files but can scan and display propritary AAC)- not fixed;
2. Removal of AOM support (avif, fixed now by KDE)
3.Removal of RAW file suport (Gwenview)- not fixed
4. Removal of ePub support - no photos, charts, screenshots in ePub technical/computer docs.- still not fixed.

P.S. The default ELISA music player doesn't see subfolders, hence no music. Everything has to be in top folder (Artist --->Album One--> Tracks :Aldbun Two --->Tracks and so on is not working). No support for recursive scanning for 5 (?) years now?

TBH, it can be frustrating sometimes: no photos, no login background, no wallpaper, not thumbnail, broken documents, then no music. and on top lack of vaapi support in FF, not to mention necessity to buy new computer with VP9 and AV1 profiles which will have more....oh, well,... it will have Plutone (as PSP and IME is not enough....). One has to have nerves of steel.

Oh and did I mentioned about update of mariadb (akonadi). Had to go with scalper remove it like a surgeon and reinstall again.

Re: Weired Things Going on in KDE-verse - Subbotage ?

Reply #3 –
I'm more inclined to think bugs / regressions and lack of developers / interest to fix support for niche file formats.
I doubt sabotage.

But I haven't looked into it. I don't use the formats mentioned except epub, and that tends to be on my kobo.

It does concern me that there seems to be a lack of maintenance around certain areas of the Linux ecosystem but I can hardly complain if I don't contribute much.

You are of course entitled to your opinion though.