[Kde-imaging] Unified sync plugin (Was: [Bug 138838] Digikam Picasaweb export plugin)

[Frank Siegert]

[removing bug 138838 from CC]

Hi Colin,

,---- Colin Guthrie wrote:
| That sounds like a good idea. I see no reason why the "unified sync plugin"
| has to be restricted to Web APIs. Exporting to any KIO sounds like a pretty
| fair use and would allow e.g. a nice sync to a gallery folder for use in
| MythGallery or similar (I was planning on wiring up MythGallery to
| phpgallery at some point but there's more than one way to skin a cat as
| they say!).

thanks for your answer. If we wanted to include KIO targets into the "unified 
sync plugin", we'd first have to decide, how much the sync targets have in 
common (UI and coding wise).

From my (current, but not fixed!) point of view, that's not really much. So I 
would suggest a wizard, which has a first page about the decision, what to 
sync, e.g. Gallery, flickr, picasaweb, KIO directory, ... .

The following wizard page should probably have tabs or an option sidebar 
(don't know, how it is correctly called, like the leftmost in the cd/dvd 
export), with all options, and that would be specific to each sync type.

And then a final page, summarizing the transaction and having a "Go" key, 
status bar, and "Finish" when it's done.

| I will make sure that any configuration for different gallery types will
| not assume that a username/password is essential.
|
| I've not had any time to concentrate on this for a while as I've been
| moving house (and will have to move again sometime soon) and have commited
| myself to helping out on too many projects for friends but I do plan on
| having a bit more time to fiddle about in the coming months so we can
| hopefully make some progress there.

Do you already have any code for the framework? Because I just discovered the 
greatness of Qt/KDE programming, and would like to code something ;-)

-- 
Frank