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Skatox

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Registered: 2006-08-25

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I wanna introduce you KIM6 (a fork of KIM4) and see if could be better

Hi,

I'm a long-time user of KIM4, but it got discontinued and doesn't work on Plasma 6. I made a fork and the PKGBUILD, and I'm posting here in case someone is interested or can review if the process is ok.

I needed to make a patch because the script does a global install, I don't know how to limit it to do it under $pkgdest, that's why I do that export thing.

You can check the PKGBUILD at: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kim6
Github repo:   https://github.com/Skatox/kim

Last edited by Skatox (2025-08-03 20:30:07)

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: I wanna introduce you KIM6 (a fork of KIM4) and see if could be better

Patches should run in prepare() , see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creati … #prepare()

All pre-defined functions in PKGBUILDs are guaranteed to start in $srcdir, you just use cd kim-$pkgver .

Just put the commands from the install.sh script in the package() function.
You won't need to export then and it will make a lot clearer what the PKGBUILD does.

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Skatox

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From: Venezuela

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Re: I wanna introduce you KIM6 (a fork of KIM4) and see if could be better

Thank you, I've done what you said.

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ugjka

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Re: I wanna introduce you KIM6 (a fork of KIM4) and see if could be better

can you add .heic image support? My phone takes heic images and i need to convert them to jpeg for Discord

Last edited by ugjka (2025-08-08 14:38:24)

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Skatox

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Re: I wanna introduce you KIM6 (a fork of KIM4) and see if could be better

Done, I've implemented support for heic files for the convert menu.

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ugjka

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Re: I wanna introduce you KIM6 (a fork of KIM4) and see if could be better

Thanks!

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