GSoC 2009/Projects/Picasa plugin for Canola
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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:
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.
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
- Add option to allow changes in album name, description and access (done)
- Add support for picture uploading (done)
- Integrate with Photocast (done)
- Add support to view other public albums by username
- Add support to search for public pictures:
- by name
- by tag
- by location (using built-in GPS)
- Show comments and tags for pictures (similar to the Flickr plugin)
- ....
Low priority tasks
- add option to select thumbs location