Any plans on porting kamoso, (skanlite) to qt6?

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/update: thanks to jsalatas’ insightful post skanlite in KDE Neon (and Fedora 40) uses qt6. It is still using qt5/kf5 in Arch as the qt6 port is considered not stable enough.

These two still come with a lot of qt5/kf5 dependencies that would be nice to get rid of for a cleaner system :wink:

A bugreport re skanlite exists already: 492026 – Skanlite still uses KDE framework v5

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Isn’t skanlite obsoleted by skanpage though? And I think plasma mobile devs are making a new camera app in Qt6 which will replace kamoso, but not sure.

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skanlite seems that it is already ported in qt6

$ apt-cache depends skanlite
skanlite
  Depends: kf6-kconfig
  Depends: kf6-kconfigwidgets
  Depends: kf6-kcoreaddons
  Depends: kf6-ki18n
  Depends: kf6-kio
  Depends: kf6-kwidgetsaddons
  Depends: kf6-kxmlgui
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libksane
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: qt6-base
$

I’m on KDE Neon btw.

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I don’t know, I had installed it for some reason that I don’t remember of and it is sitting next to skanpage :slight_smile:

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what version is it? Maybe they ported it for 24.08.3? Strange… Arch has 24.08.2-1 which is still based on qt5 Arch Linux - skanlite 24.08.2-1 (x86_64)

We would still need kamoso to be ported though (although it’s not that great, someone could easily propose uninstalling it :slight_smile: - and use Cheese, which sucks being GTK and having those awful CSD buttons :face_vomiting:)

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24.08.2

Probably arch’s package lists the wrong dependencies

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lists or is build with the old dependencies… the latter is the case as seen in PKGBUILD · main · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / skanlite · GitLab

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Oh well! Maybe kde neon has a newer version, and the package’s version doesn’t reflect it.

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It is strange because the CMake instructions for 24.0.8.2 state kf5 /edit: -oh wait is has kf6 as well -https://download.kde.org/stable/release-service/24.08.2/src/skanlite-24.08.2.tar.xz :thinking: oh well the packagers will find it out, some pinging is required most probably.

/further edit: The maintainer considered the qt6 port not stable enough 3 months ago, let’s see if it is stable now… Fedora 40 uses the version with qt6 as well.

Thanks for making me aware about skanlite in other distros :+1:

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Then apparently KDE Neon has a newer code but the package version is kept back.