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

Thanks for all the support. I'm away from my computer for the weekend and will report back on Monday.

Chris.

Am 27. Dezember 2025 21:26:34 MEZ schrieb Maik Qualmann <[email protected]>:
>The problem seems to only occur with MariaDB; a locale issue is conceivable. 
>However, I can't explain why it only affects the date and timeline view. I did 
>make a change for the upcoming digiKam-9.0.0, but the result should be the 
>same.
>
>@Christian, could you please try starting digiKam with a different locale:
>
>LANG=C digikam
>or
>LANG=de_DE digikam
>
>Maik
>
>Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2025, 20:53:07 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb 
>Steven Robbins:
>> 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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