Kipi is the KDE Image Plugin Interface. Kipi-aware applications, like Gwenview and Digikam, take advantage of this interface for a variety of useful plugins. Many of these are helpers for importing and exporting images from and to popular locations about the Internet. The one I use all the time for screenshots is Imgur. I noticed that after upgrading my machine to Utopic, the "Export to Imgur" menu item was missing from the Plugins -> Export menu in Gwenview.
Obviously, I had to track down the problem. Fortunately, I found a solution. You may read the gory details in Launchpad bug 1394085. The tl;dr version is this: the package kipi-plugins needs a few more libraries to work properly; ideally, these need to be declared as dependencies for the package. If you're suffering from Kipi breakage, this should fix you up:
And for Vivid:
Obviously, I had to track down the problem. Fortunately, I found a solution. You may read the gory details in Launchpad bug 1394085. The tl;dr version is this: the package kipi-plugins needs a few more libraries to work properly; ideally, these need to be declared as dependencies for the package. If you're suffering from Kipi breakage, this should fix you up:
Code:
sudo apt-get install libmediawiki1 libkvkontakte1 libkqoauth0 libqtgstreamerutils-0.10-0
Code:
sudo apt-get install libmediawiki1 libkvkontakte1 libkqoauth0 libqtgstreamerutils-1.0-0
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