[Kde-imaging] New kipi plugin: export to shwup.com

[Gilles Caulier]

Ok, Code reviewed and very clean. all is fine for me.

Just a little remark : plugin icon must be also in SVG format for KDE4
(if possible)...

I will add your code to KDE svn trunk.

see you soon in the team to maintain your plugin

Best

Gilles Caulier

2009/10/23 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/23 Timothee Groleau <kde at timotheegroleau.com>:
>> Hi all,
>
> Hi,
>
>>
>> I just completed a new kipi plugin: an export tool for an online media hosting
>> site (shwup.com) produced by my current company (muvee).
>
> Great...
>
>>
>> The plugin is working so far and I wanted to share some information about
>> it, get your feedback, and check with you on the procedure to qualify it and
>> possibly include it as a part of the official plugin distribution.
>
> I will review the code before to include it to official KDE svn repository
>
>>
>> Firstly, about shwup.com: shwup.com is a media sharing site where group of
>> people create and co-own media albums, such that everyone's medias for a given
>> event/trip/vacation are kept in one place. Albums are always private and only
>> accessible to their members. shwup.com exposes a REST based API, very similar
>> to that of Amazon's AWS
>
> ok
> .
>>
>> The shwup kipi plugin takes code *heavily* from the facebook export plugin. In
>> fact a large part of it is copy paste, with minor tweaks here and there (the
>> biggest changes being the removal of the import code and of course a specific
>> shwup connector class). The facebook code itself was taken from kipi-plugins
>> 0.6.0
>
> It's not possible to merge both, or shwup, at least interface ? Also
> this will reduce plugins to load at startup...
>
>>
>> The plugin introduces a dependency to QCA2 because the authentication system
>> of shwup.com requires support for md5, sha1. and hmac(sha1). I have modified
>> the kipi cmake file to search for that dependency and compile the shwup plugin
>> only if it is found.
>
> This is not possible to use KDE4 api for that (i'm not sure if code is
> available in kdelibs to support md5, sha1, etc...)
> The idea is to reduce external dependencies of course.
>
>
>>
>> The plugin itself can do more or less what the facebook plugin can do:
>> * let a user log in to shwup.com
>> * list the current available albums to upload media to
>> * create a new album
>> * downscale large images before upload
>> * raw files are supported via kdcraw (same as facebook plugin)
>>
>>
>> I am using the plugin for myself (I am a kPhotoalbum user), and I am willing
>> to be a maintainer for it. Although, I currently work for muvee, this is my
>> own pet project that I am doing mostly in my free time.
>
> If you want to be the maintainer, as code will be hosted to KDE
> reprository, you need a developper account for that. Look there for
> details :
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account
>
>>
>> I'm not sure how credits and copyrights should be attributed, so in the files
>> that I modified from the facebook plugin, I left the original copyright
>> owner's name. Let me know if that's OK.
>
> Let's original and add your one. It's GPL rules
>
>>
>> I have placed the plugin source with modified kipi 0.6.0 cmake file here. It
>> works in the 0.6.0 sources. Tested on gentoo system with KDE 4.3.2, with
>> Gwenview and Kphotoalbum:
>> http://timotheegroleau.com/shwup-for-kipi-plugins-0.6.0.tar.bz2
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you have any feedback, and if you think such a plugin can be
>> accepted.
>
> sure
>
>>
>> A final disclaimer: I am a beginner at C++ and this is my first Qt/KDE-based
>> project. Please bear with me on the quality of the code :/ . Any feedback and
>> suggestions to make the project better would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> welcome.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>