PhotoFlow AppImage package ready for testing

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 22, 2016, 8:35pm

I decided to give AppImage a try and prepared a test package, using the darktable recipe from here as a starting point (actually I had to change only very few lines).

The AppImage is available from dropbox here.

Is anyone interested to test this package? I would be particularly interested in feedback from Linux systems other than Ubuntu…

The usage is very simple:

download the app image and save it somewhere on your hard drive
make the downloaded file executable:
chmod u+x PhotoFlow-git20160620.glibc2.15-x86_64.AppImage
run the appimage:
./PhotoFlow-git20160620.glibc2.15-x86_64.AppImage

Thanks in advance!

paperdigits · June 22, 2016, 9:21pm

I will certainly give this a try. It’ll be my first time with PhotoFlow, I hope she treats me gently

Morgan_Hardwood · June 22, 2016, 10:06pm

Runs fine in Gentoo.

Also, virus-free https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/172ce9a0f508bd93901f36816e53b563d4ddb035e2a67d649d3775783f0db14e/analysis/1466632652/

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 22, 2016, 10:24pm

Thanks for checking, Morgan!

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 22, 2016, 10:27pm

I swear it never bited me so far !!!

dreamcatcher · June 23, 2016, 3:58am

Runs perfect on Arch. But I have it installed anyway, so I have all dependencies installed (vips etc.). Is all dependency libs included in the package?

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 23, 2016, 5:18am

Yes, it should… the package should run even on a live CD with only the basic system…

Thanks for checking!

paperdigits · June 23, 2016, 7:52am

On Fedora 23 x64, I get:

$~/Downloads$ ./PhotoFlow-git20160620.glibc2.15-x86_64\(1\).AppImage 
/tmp/.mount_cWSzzF
/tmp/.mount_cWSzzF/usr/bin/photoflow.wrapper
/tmp/.mount_cWSzzF/photoflow.desktop
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
/home/micas/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-photoflow.desktop: error: file contains key "_GenericName" in group "Desktop Entry", but key names must contain only the characters A-Za-z0-9- (they may have a "[LOCALE]" postfix)
/home/micas/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-photoflow.desktop: error: file contains key "_Comment" in group "Desktop Entry", but key names must contain only the characters A-Za-z0-9- (they may have a "[LOCALE]" postfix)
/home/micas/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-photoflow.desktop: error: file contains key "_Keywords" in group "Desktop Entry", but key names must contain only the characters A-Za-z0-9- (they may have a "[LOCALE]" postfix)
/home/micas/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-photoflow.desktop: error: value "/home/micas/Downloads/PhotoFlow-git20160620.glibc2.15-x86_64(1).AppImage %U" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '(' outside of a quote
/home/micas/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-photoflow.desktop: error: value "/home/micas/Downloads/PhotoFlow-git20160620.glibc2.15-x86_64(1).AppImage %U" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ')' outside of a quote
Error on file "/tmp/.mount_cWSzzF/photoflow.desktop": Failed to validate the created desktop file
/tmp/.mount_cWSzzF/usr/bin/photoflow: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: XRRGetMonitors

Let me know what I can do to help!

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 23, 2016, 8:23am

I have probably found a workaround here: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/gimp/Recipe#L74

I will try to apply that and prepare a new appimage for testing.

Did you also test the darktable appimage in your system? Is it working fine?

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 23, 2016, 8:34am

Could you try to download the file again? You should get a new version that hopefully solves the undefined symbol…

Thanks!

paperdigits · June 23, 2016, 3:37pm

DarkTable is working fine.

I will test this last this evening, thanks!

MLC · June 23, 2016, 9:40pm

Runs on Manjaro 16.06.

It doesn’t play well with my theme, Numix-ArchBlue, however. Although, neither does the git package.

I did also notice that it took a really long time to export the resulting image to jpeg.

paperdigits · June 23, 2016, 10:25pm

Gtk 3 version is suspect there, since they break the theme api every release.

MLC · June 24, 2016, 12:24am

Of that, I have no doubt. It’s why I had to switch to Numix in the first place.

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 24, 2016, 6:44am

At least in principle, photoflow’s look should be independent of the theme you are using, because it reads its own custom theme on startup. However I am not a theming expert, and there seem to be still flaws in what I am doing… anyhow, the version of the application in the AppImage is GTK2-based, so I would exclude Gtk3 theming API problems.

PhotoFlow uses the “murrine” theme engine: could it be that it is missing from your system? In which case, I probably need to include it explicitly in the appimage?

I’m currently working on optimising the export process… so far, I mostly focused on the speed of the preview rendering because that was the most crucial element.

Thanks!

MLC · June 24, 2016, 2:51pm

Murrine is installed:

The problem started around the time of GTK-3.19 update. Incidentally, that is also when my Greybird theme started going all wonky and I had to install Numix to maintain a tolerable desktop. I have no idea why it might also affect PhotoFlow, as I too am thematically challenged.

I’m sure I could do some digging and come up with a plausible hypothesis, but that takes time and perhaps someone smarter and more familiar with the quirks of the engine can tell us.

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 24, 2016, 3:46pm

Thanks for the explanation! Does RawTherapee look OK or does it have the same problem?

MLC · June 24, 2016, 3:57pm

RT acts the way it’s supposed to. Fully independent of my theme.

Carmelo_DrRaw · June 24, 2016, 4:02pm

Then I’ll experiment a bit with the RT theme applied to PhF and I’ll update the appimage.

Thanks!

MLC · June 24, 2016, 4:08pm

Changing my theme to Manjaro’s native Menda causes PhotoFlow to play nice:

Unfortunately, I cannot abide Menda.