Re: [Geeqie-devel] GPS maps

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi,

Am Fr den 20. Mai 2016 um 23:05 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> pkgsrc has multiple versions of libchamplain.  The geeqie README does
> not explain which versions are needed, and about clutter-gtk versions.
> I suspect the reality is fairly simple -- you need libchamplain 0.12,
> and it has to be built with fairly recent clutter-gtk and hence gtk3 --
> but I am just guessing so far.

That in mind, we should have a condition in configure that disables all
champlain stuff when GTK2 is in use.

Maybe the distributions want to release a GTK2 _and_ a GTK3 version. I
would not recommend GTK3 at the moment with the bad picture that GTK3 is
giving currently.

> Then, trying to build with libchamplain 0.12, I get errors that seem
> fixed in git (to adapt to newer cogl) but not in any release.
> 
> So, I would advise ironing out the rough edges, which I think you can
> probably do pretty quickly, perhaps mostly documentation.  Then, when
> it's really working for everyone, it makes sense to talk about the
> defaults.
> 
> I don't know if geeqie is willing to cross into bugfix releases in
> branches, but if we are talking about 1.4, it would be nice to have a
> 1.2.4 with the cogl fix and any README updates.

Managing bugfixes for older versions than the current stable is not
doable with the current man power. Even more, I would never think about
that.

And for the current stable version I only backport security bugfixes, no
feature fixes, even more than it is about a experimental feature.

Last, Version 1.2 is on the end and version 1.3 will come out shortly.
Then, 1.3 is the stable and 1.2 will not be supported further.

> So, this is a request to update the README to be clear about versions of
> libchamplain, clutter, clutter-gtk, etc, and to specify which of those
> are directly required.  Please talk about upstream packages, not Linux
> package names, because geeqie is in theory (and mostly is) portable to
> any reasonable POSIX-like system (I'm using it on NetBSD, and have been
> using gqview/geeqie for probably 15 years).

Could you please create an issue on github so that could be tracked and
worked on? Requests in the mailing list gets lost.

Regards
   Klaus
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Re: [Geeqie-devel] GPS maps

[Greg Troxel]

Colin Clark  writes:

> The config change was made by Vladimir on 18/8/2012 (I think). If 
> clutter and libchamplain libraries are installed, and the enable-clutter 
> option given, then the map is compiled in also.
> The user has the option of preventing the map being included by use of 
> the disable-gps option.

What does clutter do without champlain?

I would be inclined to call this --enable-libchamplain rather than
--enable-gps, becuase --enable-gps sounds like gpsd and real-time
positioning.

I would love to see a way to show all images in a directory on a map at
once, and to get a subview of just the ones in a region after selecting
or clicking on a cluster marker.  Try some of those proprietary photo
apps to see what I mean :-)

> If people report a problem with the map, I will try to help solve it. 
> But from the mailing list I get the feeling that the map is not a 
> significant function for Geeqie users.

I suspect it will become more important as geotagging is more commmon,
especially if it becomes low effort to enable.


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