GSoC 2009/Projects/Picasa plugin for Canola
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[edit] Picasa plugin for Canola - GSoC 2009 Project
- Student: Mirestean Andrei, email: andrei dot mirestean at gmail dot com
- Mentor: Gustavo Chaves
- Project Status: accepted :D
- Repository:
[edit] Project summary
The aim of this project is to develop a Picasa plugin for Canola. The plugin will be able to access the web albums stored at Picasa, to upload new pictures, to add/update descriptions and tags). The plugin will ease and shorten the process of taking and sharing a picture on the Internet. It will also use GPS data to fill location information in picture's meta-data and to search for pictures taken in current region.
[edit] Progress
- Backend which interfaces with Google Picasa API (done)
- List user's albums with details (thumb, name, description) (done)
- Add album create / delete options (done)
- Show thumbs for pictures in each album (done)
- Show full size pictures (done, but should export some classes from canola-core )
- Show full screen pictures (done, but should export some classes from canola-core)
- Add support to delete pictures from albums (done)
- Add option to allow changes in album name, description and access (done)
- Add support for picture uploading (done)
- Add support for album uploading (done)
- Integrate with Photocast (done)
- Add support to view other public albums by username (done)
- Add support to search for public pictures:
- by name (done)
- by tag (done)
- by location name (done)
- by location using built-in GPS (done)
- Show comments and tags for pictures (similar to the Flickr plugin) (done)
- Support to add comments (done)
- Show favorites (done)
[edit] Low priority tasks
- add option to select thumbs location
[edit] Screenshots
- http://picasaweb.google.com/canolapicasa/CanolaPicasaScreenshots?feat=directlink
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbagUM3gqGM
[edit] Instructions to install the plugin
The package is available in the following repositories:
- extras-devel repositories for diablo and fremantle: http://maemo.org/packages/view/canola2-picasa-plugin/
- canola ppa: https://launchpad.net/~canola/+archive/ppa
Please contact me for any problems.
[edit] Reports
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