Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r12.0-1685

Chapter 31. KDE Frameworks 5 Based Applications

Gwenview-23.08.5

Introduction to Gwenview

Gwenview is a fast and easy-to-use image viewer for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Gwenview Dependencies

Required

Exiv2-0.28.2, kimageannotator-0.7.0, KDE Frameworks-5.115.0, and Little CMS-2.14

Recommended

libkdcraw-23.08.5

Optional

KF5Kipi

Installation of Gwenview

First, work around an incompatibility with recent changes in kImageAnnotator: 

patch -Np1 -i ../gwenview-23.08.5-build_fixes-1.patch

Install Gwenview by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: gwenview and gwenview_importer
Installed Libraries: libgwenviewlib.so and gvpart.so
Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/share/{kxmlgui5/gvpart,gwenview,doc/HTML/*/gwenview}

Short Descriptions

gwenview

is the KDE image viewer

gwenview_importer

is a Photo importer