Bug 373304

Summary: google picasa photo import
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <kde-bugs>
Component: Plugin-WebService-GoogleAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, dinhthanhtrung1996
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2016-12-05 17:52:41 UTC 
Hi,

I hope I've chosen the right bugzilla components.

In its current implementation, the "Import from Picasa/Google" feature only gives a listing of the available albums. It does not give any idea about the contents of the album.

My Feature Request is that, it would be nice to have a widget show the picasa web albums and their contents, along with thumbnails.

You could have this as an optional secondary feature. THis will allow users to decide what all pics they'd want to download. Otherwise, it is a "Catch All" implementation currently. And with Videos (auto) backed up, this becomes a sheer waste of network resources.

Take another example: Google Picasaweb has an Album called "Auto Backup", where it backs up all pictures taken over your Google a/c. WHen importing with Digikam, the entire "Auto Backup" contents will be imported. Where as, with the requested Feature, users will have a choice to look and decide what all they want to import.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2018-06-16 12:39:00 UTC 
Thanh,

This file still valid with your GSoC 2018 devel branch ?

Best

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Thanh Trung Dinh 2018-06-16 14:18:39 UTC 
Gilles,

Yes, it's still valid. I will work on it for the factorization codes.

Thanh.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2018-08-14 14:32:18 UTC 
Thanh,

What about this file with git/master code ?

Gilles
Comment 4 Thanh Trung Dinh 2018-08-15 09:26:44 UTC 
Gilles,

I didn't have enough time for this during GSoC 2018. However, this is a very promising features though, so I think that it should be on TODO list. 

There are just a few things making me consider and I mentioned one of them in the discussion about bug #383174. It is about APIs quota. As each time listing contents of an album, we will have to download thumbnails for all of them. So if someone has more than 1000 images in an album, we will run out of API calls easily. Besides, performance should be considered as a factor too, otherwise network will be overloaded with thumbnail download.

Best,

Thanh
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2018-08-15 09:30:35 UTC 
Thanks Thanh for your analysis and feedback. This will help in the future.

Gilles