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

[Colin Guthrie]

Frank Siegert wrote:
> ,---- 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, ... .

Yes I had envisaged something similar but more from a pre-configure
point of view, kinda like how you configure email accounts in a mail client.

Host applications woudl then hook in at the album and picture level to
allow "Sync Options..." menu entries to allow the selection of a Sync
Target for each album. Individual images could be excluded from the sync
(incase they are not suitible for your mum etc.!).

I'd like to see the host applications support this kind of export for
"dynamic albums" (e.g. Tags or Searches in Digikam) too which would make
the whole system very flexible but requires some more abstraction in the
libkipi interface first (these changes have been discussed previously on
this list but we've not actually made much in the way of progress on them).

I would then see a generic command that would "Perform all Syncs" with
options to sync at startup/shutdown automatically too. This would not be
interactive but would just pop up a dialog that showed progress of the
various "syncs" you had defined.

I was also hoping to eventually include some of Seb's work on the
ipodexport plugin to include ipods as a possible sync target too.

> 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 ;-)

No I don't as of yet. I didn't really want to commit anything as there
has been a new release hanging over us for a while so I don't want to
break things.

I think I'll svn cp the galleryexport folder to a "sync" folder and
start working on that. It can exist happily in svn and never be referred
to in the Makefile.am file so that it shouldn't get in the way of a
release... is this OK to do Angelo? WDYT?

Col



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