Bug 262323

Summary:	FACTORING : allow create local album before to import from remote web service
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Alin M Elena <alinm.elena>
Component:	Plugin-Generic-WishForNewTools	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.nolting, aspotashev, caulier.gilles, dglent, shouryasgupta
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Alin M Elena 2011-01-06 17:25:53 UTC

Version:           2.0.0 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

Hi,

I would be nice to have an option in the picasa album importer that automatically creates the folder, locally... 

Even nicer would be a context option (right click) that allows to keep in sync the pictures/albums with picasa...

I suspect that these apply to other online services too... I use only picasa.

regards,

Alin


Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37-rc8-desktop
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2015-05-19 12:47:27 UTC

*** Bug 338192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2015-05-19 13:46:57 UTC

*** Bug 329839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2018-11-03 11:01:51 UTC

WARNING : with digiKam 6.0.0 and later, we will not support kipi interface anymore. All tools are now located in digiKam core as well for a plan to provide a more power-full integration with Batch Queue Manager and to be able to export a workflow on a web-service.

All export tools are now available everywhere : album view, Image editor, Light table, and Showfoto. Previously, only album view from digiKam core was able to deal with export tools through libkipi.

All export tools are now located here :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/webservices

All export tools use now a dedicated interface to communicate with the application :

- digiKam (database) :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/libs/database/utils/ifaces/dbinfoiface.h

- Showfoto (files metadata) :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/common/dmetainfoiface.h

There is not direct use of digiKam database for compatibility with Showfoto.

We plan later to provide a dynamic loading of export tools using a plugins mechanism. This will reduce overloading of the internal core libraries. A dedicated devel branch have been created for that, but it's not yet complete:

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/?h=development/dplugins

But take a care, digiKam export tools as plugins will not be shared with another external application. API will still private and only shared between Showfoto and digiKam core. The experience with libkipi was bad and complex to maintain/extend in time.

Gilles Caulier