Bug 152478 - New tool to export to Photolab
Summary: New tool to export to Photolab
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Plugin-WebService-WishForNewTools (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2007-11-17 19:13 UTC by Dan Ohnesorg
Modified: 2019-07-29 04:09 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Ohnesorg 2007-11-17 19:13:54 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

For user comfort is needed plugin for sending photos to minilab. One of the project, which make the upload easier is <a href="http://cihar.com/software/photo-uploader/">http://cihar.com/software/photo-uploader/</a>, but there can be in the future many others.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2007-11-17 19:55:09 UTC
And another one for Colin (:=)))...

Gilles
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2009-01-01 11:12:00 UTC
Another web service export plugin...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 3 Dan Ohnesorg 2009-01-01 14:12:41 UTC
Also we have a interesting development here in Czech Republic, all our digi foto producers were bought by Deutsche firma CeWe which uses some java upload application. This application in fact doesn't work well under Linux and all the older upload solutions, like windows publishing wizard or photo-uploader, aren't functional at all. I have asked for upload API, but CeWe is too big to answer such a question.
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2018-11-03 10:59:44 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