Package: kimageformat-plugins
Version: 5.37.0-2
Severity: normal
According to `apt-cache rdepends kimageformat-plugins`, the only package that
depends on this package as of this writing is libkf5archive5, and even that's
only to introduce Breaks on older versions. The thing is, this package is
actually quite useful to have as it provides (among other things) plugins to
process XCF, PSD, Krita, and OpenRaster images.
I completely accidentally came across the existence of this package in sid this
evening after a long time assuming that upstream had simply stopped providing
support for XCF image previews in Dolphin for one reason or another --
especially since there is a separate unrelated thumbnailer for Krita and
OpenRaster imagea, and I couldn't find any information pertaining to a GIMP
thumbnailer or the lack thereof on Web. I found this issue particularly
disappointing back when I first switched to stretch from jessie, since I use
Dolphin and the great majority of the stuff I work with is in the GIMP XCF
format.
Installing this package and ensuring the generic image thumbnailer ("Images
(GIF, PNG, BMP, ...)" in Settings -> General -> Previews in Dolphin) is enabled
allows Dolphin to generate thumbnails for XCF images as expected. Ideally, some
other package (I don't know which one, unfortunately) should Recommend or
Suggest this one.
I don't have access to a stretch system to test right now, but I believe this
issue also applies there.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.12.11-hanacore-39 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages kimageformat-plugins depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-3
ii libilmbase12 2.2.0-12
ii libkf5archive5 5.37.0-2
ii libopenexr22 2.2.0-11.1
ii libqt5core5a 5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii libqt5gui5 5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.9.1+dfsg-9
ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-3
kimageformat-plugins recommends no packages.
kimageformat-plugins suggests no packages.
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