Re: Empty timeline view, empty dates view - but can search for dates?

Steven Robbins <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:53:07 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user
Message-ID	<2251913.irdbgypaU6@riemann>

First: thanks, Christian for posting about this!

On Friday, December 26, 2025 9:22:17 a.m. Central Standard Time Maik Qualmann 
wrote:
> We received this bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511229
> 
> The solution for the user was to use the digiKam AppImage.
> One would have to dig deeper into Debian to see if they've patched anything.

I'm the debian maintainer for Digikam.  I can confirm that there are no patches 
made to digikam sources per se.  There are presently just two patches, both to 
the build system: one to disable the configuration probe for jasper and one to 
ensure stuff that links with libdng also links with libatomic.  Both are 
Debian-specific needs, to the best of my knowledge.

> Am Freitag, 26. Dezember 2025, 15:58:39 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb
> Christian Haul:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I have been using digikam for ages now but at some point the timeline view
> > (and the dates view) suddenly became empty. I have checked with the DB
> > (MariaDB) that dates are included, also they are properly shown in the
> > overview and I can even search for pictures in a timeframe.
> > 
> > I have no clue what might be a reason for this.

I am sorry the feature isn't working for you.  I don't have any theory as to 
why.  However, I can confirm that both are still working on my Debian system.  
I'm running a very up-to-date "unstable" debian with KDE and Digikam 8.8.0-2 
configured for the SQLite database.

> > I'm running mostly on gnome on debian unstable but using plasma or Xfce
> > doesn't change a thing. I'm aware that unstable occasionally breaks things
> > but this issue persists now for a longer time so I'm afraid it's probably
> > some local configuration issue.

Since you are running unstable, there is a possibility it is a package issue.  
I know from first-hand experience that there have been some hiccups with the 
recent KDE/Plasma 6 upgrades, as evidenced by the long threads on the topic; 
e.g. https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2025/10/msg00031.html  

And there's a wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206

I think I got past my upgrade issues by manually installing packages that 
seemed connected to kde/plasma 6.

-Steve

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