[Kde-imaging] [Bug 175224] picasawebexport ability to upload an album

[Luka Renko]

On Sunday 04 January 2009 22:59:38 Luka Renko wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2009 19:35:00 Vardhman Jain wrote:
> > I assume this means some changes to the UI of photo selection and then
> > providing a special upload to album button which opens a dialog with
> > current albums and allow creation of a new album name.
> >
> > Luka, How exactly are you planning to approach the same ?
>
> I am just exploring how this could be done after Gilles hint that
> KIPI::ImageCollection might provide enough information.
>
> My idea would be that if Export is called on album (collection), list of
> images would be automatically filled in with all images in album and I
> would automatically open New Album (New PhotoSet for Flickr) with
> automatically filled in data (name, description/comment, category...). The
> idea is to match (fill in) as much as possible.
> User can then modify presented fields and decide to create new album (click
> OK) or not (click Cancel).
> In case of OK, upload could start immediately (not sure about this though).
> In case of cancel, it will get to main window and will be able to choose
> any of the existing albums/photosets for upload.

Today I have investigated KIPI interface a bit more to understand how this 
could be done. It looks like to me that there is no way to differentiate if 
user has selected album (collection) or individual photos (images) in KIPI 
host application. This means that KIPI plugin cannot provide different UI for 
upload photos vs. upload album. 
Maybe this should be taken into consideration for future KIPI interface 
improvements.

Regards,
Luka