[Kde-imaging] Adding kipi plugin, do I need to become KDE developer

[Gilles Caulier]

I propose to take a developer account and to put your code in a
dedicated kipi-plugins branch to review it and prepare for production.

Current photivo plugin is disabled at compilation time...

Also, i would to know the viewpoint of Benjamin Girault (in this room)
who have follow student last year about this project.

Gilles Caulier

2013/7/3 Kevin Dalley <kevin at kelphead.org>:
> I looked at photivointegration. However, that plugin didn't really get very
> far. The name is good. I took the icon, and followed the lead for using the
> tools menu. However, the more important part of the work I did was to add an
> option to photivo which uses digikam sidecars. Once that was in place, the
> digikam plugin was fairly simple.
>
> Screenshots wouldn't show much here. Just choose an image, send it to
> photivo. There isn't a separate window. Actually, if more than one image is
> chosen, there is an sorry message which appears.
>
> The important part of this feature is that all digikam information is passed
> to photivo. Any image generated by photivo will show the information.
>
> There is a discussion here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/groups/photivo/discuss/72157633972312139/
>
> Here is my README:
>
> This is a kipi plugin which calls photivo, using digikam sidecars
>
>
> This plugin calls photivo using arguments of the image file,
> and a sidecar, if the sidecar exists.
>
> Photivo requirements:
> This plugin requires a version of photivo which supports the
> "--sidecar" option.
>
> Digikam settings:
> The following digikam setting should be set.
> Go to this setting:
> Settings=>Configure digikam...
> Select:
> Under the setting:
>       Write this Information to the Metadata:
>       Select all data which should be passed to photivo. I select
>       everything except Face Tags; Face Rectangles do not seem
>       to be copied correctly.
>
> Under the setting:
>       Write to sidecar files
> choose:
>       Write to XMP sidecar for read-only image only
>
> Under digikam:
> Choose Image=>Photivo
>
> Note:
> Rating in sidecar takes precedence over pts file
> The rating in the pts file will be ignored if there is a rating in the
> sidecar
>
> Workflow
>
> Here is my workflow.
>
> Load photos from camera into digikam
>
> Use digikam to select preferred photos
> I use PickLabel and Rating, mostly.
> In the process, I may use digikam to make the decision, saving a pts
> file during this process.
>
> Image=>Metadata=>Edit all Metadata...
> Modify:
> EXIF Caption=>Description (this becomes Title in flickr)
>      alternatively, edit IPTC Content=>Headline or XMP Content=>Headline
> EXIF Caption (this becomes Description in flickr)
>      alternatively, edit IPTC Content=>Caption or XMP Content=>Caption
>
> Edit GPS data
> Perhaps Use Image=>Geo-location
>
> Run photivo by choosing Tools=>Photivo...
> This will load sidecar data
> Load pts file, if it exists
>
>
> On 07/02/2013 10:21 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Yes, typically it's the best way to work.
>>
>> Not that we have already a tool for photivo, which have not been completed
>> :
>>
>>
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/repository/revisions/master/show/photivointegration
>>
>> Do you have based your implementation to this tool ? Or it's a new one ?
>>
>> Which feature do you have implemented in this tool ? Do you have any
>> screenshots ?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2013/7/3 Kevin Dalley <kevin at kelphead.org>:
>>>
>>> I have a photivo kipi plugin which I want to upload to a git branch.
>>>
>>> Do I need to become a KDE developer to do this.
>>>
>>> This plugin also requires a photivo modification, which I am working on.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is at:
>>>
>>> https://code.google.com/r/nereocystiskevin-digikam/source/checkout
>>>
>>> The goal is to integrate digikam tags, etc, into photivo.
>>>
>>> For me, this allows a useful workflow.
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