Wayland and CEWE software

I was pleasantly surprised when I tried to download the CEWE design software, and it offered me a Linux version.

It runs perfectly well under X11, but only partially under Wayland. The basic display is fine, but menus and buttons don’t seem to work properly.

Questions:

  1. Does anyone else run the software, and have they got it to work under Wayland?
  2. Looking at the software’s directory, it looks as though it uses QT5. Are my problems just a facet of using an older version of QT?

For completeness, I am running Tumbleweed and the lastest version of theNVidia driver.

Yes, they do have a Linux version and it is easy to install. I did it several times, not for myself but for my neighbor who always wants to create a photo album of their holidays.
What I do is I install it without sudo so it gets installed in a directory inside your home folder, that way it is very easy to remove it when needed.

The last time I installed the program was in May of this year and it was on Debian 12 KDE 5.xx. Most likely also on X11 so I can’t tell if it runs on Wayland. But since you use a program which runs on KDE 5.xx, using it on 6 might be problematic.
I get a feeling that at CEWE they want to have a Linux version but it is not highly maintained and is sometimes far behind reality. I had that with a library some years ago which I had to look for on the internet (and found in the Debian archive) and now KDE 5 and 6. Such a shame because it is a great program with which you can make fantastic albums, but as it normally is: only the largest group of customers (Windows users) is served well.

I hope you get it running the way you want it, but to be honest I have my doubts. You can however reboot into X11 and use it and when ready reboot again in Wayland. Not great but what can you do?

Quite possibly, though I have to wonder whether they use QT for other platforms, which might offer some hope for the future.

When I am processing images, I generally do it in X11 anyway, given that Wayland currently has no colour management.

The one thing I have done is email CEWE and thanked them for the Linux version. There is a British saying, “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”, so a bit of praise can’t do any harm.

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