[Shotwell] export-Feedback

[Ingo Lütkebohle]

Heya,

I'm wondering a little about the worth of having export functionality
developed from scratch for Shotwell.

Of course, this is not 0.5 specific but applies to 0.4 too. However, I
was kind of expecting to see plugin-capability in 0.5, which would have
made this comment moot. As that did not happen, I'm sending it now.

There are a number of excellent flickr-Tools available. For example, I'm
using the small-and-to-the-point "postr", but there are several others
for which the same argument holds.

Such tools already integrate pretty well with Shotwell just using
out-of-the-box capabilities -- i.e. drag'n'drop -- exporting using dnd
and postr is at least as fast, if not faster, than the current Shotwell
support for flickr.

Whats more, postr allows me to specify names, tags and sets for my
uploads, which Shotwell currently does not do. Last, but not least,
postr doesn't block Shotwell while uploading.

I would suspect that using the dnd data-exchange mechanism on the
backend, integration with postr could have been built in a fraction of
the time it took you to build your own flickr-uploader.

Long mail, short question: Why are you building this functionality again?

Cheers, Ingo