[Kde-imaging] Comments needed Reg Upload to Flickr Kipi plugin

[Roland Wolters]

Once upon a time Vardhman Jain wrote:
>        I am in the process of developing a Kipi-plugin to allow photo
> uploads to flickr (http://www.flickr.com). I have started with the
> codebase of gallery exporter as reference.
>
Thank you very much :)

> Firstly, Uploads are not session/cookie based, every photo has to be
> sent in a form with username and password in it. Meaning we can't ask
> the user the password each time the plugin is invoked. ( So when the
> plugin is invoked should Kwallet be required to authenticate or how
> should I load these values and from where?).
>
I think the perfect way is kwallet, but I do not know if it is easy enough. 
The other way could be to ask for the login-data when you start the plugin 
for the first photo. After that, every photo which was marked to upload 
should take this password.
Again: kwallet is the best way.

> Secondly, when images are uploaded there are a set of options we can
> send in the html form, they include things like Description, Tags,
> Title and more importantly access permissions like is_public,
> is_family, is_friend see this url for e.g
> "http://www.flickr.com/tools/uploader_go.gne"  . The first three of
> these info will MOSTLY be different for each image, while the last
> three might be very rarely changes, so should I also store these
> things in the settings file for the plugin (does plugins also have rc
> files?)
>
I think there schould be some buttons to change the last three infos for all 
photos and the possibility to change the infos for each photo by click it, 
for example.

> Moreover, the images are grouped not only on the basis of tags, but
> also on basis of sets so what all information should the user be able
> to set while uploading itself and what could be allowed to change
> later? Prompting him for each upload is bad so may be we upload all
> the photos at once and then allow him to change the settings for the
> ones he want to. Where do we store(?) the information about the images
> uploaded?
>
I think the best way is to have different options:
- upload photos
- upload photos with tags and descriptions
- upload photos with tags and descriptions as a set
- upload photos as a set

Somehting like this, as a drop down menue at the plugin-window.

My 2 cents,

Roland