[Kde-imaging] PicasaWeb tool is obsolete. Replace it with GDrive...

[Alexander Potashev]

2015-05-26 12:32 GMT+03:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently review bugs about PicasaWeb tool, and a lots or reports are about
> major dysfunction to be connected to web service.
>
> After to check Google API document, i seen that tool use old API which have
> been disabled since a while. PicasaWeb have been replaced by G+ Photo web
> service, but...
>
> ... now, It start to be replaced by GDrive web service. Photo repository is
> always hosted to G+ social network, but we can access to "Google Photo"
> through GDrive.
>
> By chance, since on year, we have a Gdrive tool which work very well to
> access to Google Photo. User just need to enable link to Google Photo to
> Google Drive repository. I just tested with my account and it work well.
>
> Somebody can confirm this workflow with another Google account ?
>
> My plan :
>
> 1/ remove PicasaWeb tool. We don't need to maintain 2 tools at the same time
> for the same web service.
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=PicasaWeb&list_id=1266695&product=kipiplugins&query_format=advanced
>
> 2/ close all files relevant of PicasaWeb tool dysfunctions, move closed
> files in GDrive bugzilla component, and remove PicasaWeb tool component from
> bugzilla.
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Hi Gilles,

I was able to link Google Photo to GDrive and vice versa, but...

 1. I expected to see the item "Google Photo" in the list of albums in
GDrive export plugin immediatly after linking G+ to GDrive. It
appeared only after I uploaded an image via web interface at
plus.google.com. So kipi-plugins' user cannot upload photos to G+
without first using the web interface and thus our export plugin is
not "standalone" or self-sufficient.

 2. There should be some hint about Google Photo in the export plugin,
otherwise the feature of interest is impossible to discover. We can
may be add a fake item "Google Photo" into the list of albums - and
when the user tries to upload into that fake album, we'd show him/her
a message box with the full information on how to make it work.

 3. I tried tries to upload at least something into GDrive and it
failed [1]. This is not relevant to the discussion though.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348278

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Alexander Potashev