[Shotwell] export-Feedback

[Ingo Lütkebohle]

Hi Adam,

Am 09.03.2010 00:33, schrieb Adam Dingle:
> it's true that Postr is a useful tool for uploading photos to Flickr,
> and at the moment it's pretty easy to export from Shotwell to Flickr
> using Postr: all you have to do is export photos from Shotwell to a
> folder (e.g. on your desktop), then drag the folder into Postr.  As you
> point out, it might be nice if the user could drag from Shotwell to
> Postr directly.  Unfortunately that might not so easy to implement given
> the intricacies of how drag and drop works in GNOME. 

Hmm. I've been dragging directly from Shotwell to postr since 0.3. In
fact, my previous mail must've been unclear -- I've been wanting to say
that dragging to postr works fine and that I'm quite happy with it -- in
fact, so happy, that I don't see a point in doing something else ;-)

What I do is select a few images, then drag them to the open postr
window, into the side-bar that displays images.

If I understand what you're saying correctly, I might get old versions
of the images, right? I will have to check this, but in the past, I was
wondering about exactly this kind of thing (because of Shotwells
editing) and it appeared to work just fine. I will re-check with 0.5,
though.

> We've built exporting to Flickr and other services directly into
> Shotwell for a couple of reasons.  First, as described above it might
> not be so easy to implement drag and drop into other exporting
> applications.  Second, we like having export inside Shotwell because
> over time we may evolve Shotwell to be more deeply integrated with
> photo-hosting services.  At some point we may automatically sync photos
> bidirectionally between Shotwell and hosting sites, so that photos you
> upload to a site through a Web browser will be downloaded into Shotwell
> automatically.  

sorry, I didn't mean to say that you shouldn't have export integrated
with Shotwell. I just questioned whether to achieve that, you have to
/reimplement/ it, instead of integrating with a tool that does it
already -- and better.

For syncing, gnome-conduit appears to have plugins. I haven't used that
personally, but it might be a start. btw, I haven't used gnome-conduit
because /automatic/ "syncing of everything" never held much appeal for
me, I prefer to be in control of what to sync, like dropbox does it with
a particular folder.

cheers,

-- 
Ingo Lütkebohle -- http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~iluetkeb/