Bug 303443 - New tool to share collections through Bluetooth
Summary: New tool to share collections through Bluetooth
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Plugin-Generic-WishForNewTools (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2012-07-12 22:36 UTC by Kai Uwe Broulik
Modified: 2018-11-03 11:00 UTC (History)
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-07-12 22:36:49 UTC
It is common fashion that smartphones have a "Share" button at pictures (Active has this as well, doesn’t it?) and this allows you to share files via Bluetooth. Gwenview, however, is missing that functionality in its Share menu because there is no Bluetooth kipi plugin available, or the service menu that BlueDevil adds to the Dolphin service menu should be added here.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Picture in Gwenview
2. Click Share button in toolbar
3.
Actual Results:  
No way to share via Bluetooth

Expected Results:  
A "Bluetooth" entry that lets you conveniently send that picture over to any Bluetooth device.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2018-11-03 11:00:22 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