[Kde-imaging] Unified sync plugin

[Frank Siegert]

,---- Colin Guthrie wrote:
| > 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.!).

That is indeed a bit more advanced, then what I had in mind, and doesn't 
really sound like a plugin, but rather part of the host application.

To be honest, for my (own, user!) needs that seems like overkill. I'd very 
much prefer to use a more dynamic setup, i.e. use the selection 
possibilities*, which the host application offers, and then send that 
selection to the export plugin, where I just want to be able to reuse 
settings from last time, but no need to preconfigure anything.
But that's only my imagination of the workflow, though it would be much easier 
to implement.
* possibilities like albums, tags, date, (advanced) search, ...

Advantages of your approach (do I miss anything?):
- possibility of specifying multiple sync targets, which can be synced at once 
and automatically

Is that worth the much more complicated structure? 
If yes (you and others must know better than I!), then I'll probably wait for 
you to get started with the structure, as it sounds a bit too complicated for 
me as a beginner, and then add the "Sync to KIO directory" part to it. I just 
hope, the UI is not too complex then, for simply exporting the current 
selection to a new target.
If not, I'd try to get started with it in the way I planned to do it, and also 
include KIO as one sync target. I don't have any knowledge (nor interest) in 
the flickr/Gallery/picasaweb etc. plugins, so you or anybody else who is 
interested, could add (port) them whenever you want?

Which of the approaches would others take?

--
Frank