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

[Gilles Caulier]

Your plugin code is commited to KDE svn trunk :

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/shwup/

Gilles Caulier

2009/10/23 Timothee Groleau <kde at timotheegroleau.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I just completed a new kipi plugin: an export tool for an online media hosting
> site (shwup.com) produced by my current company (muvee).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers!
> Tim.
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