Tim, thank you for responding me. I'm really looking forward to F-Spot Community Extensions project. Meanwhile I'll try to create the repository compatible with the latest F-Spot version (0.8.2.), as you suggested. Best regards Petr
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Tim Howard <[email protected]>wrote: > Petr, > > First off, that's excellent. Another popular exporter is fantastic news. I > can't speak for F-Spot proper since Ruben **Vermeersch is the currrent > maintainer but at the moment I am actively working on setting up a F-Spot > Community Extensions project. My idea is to remove the exporters and editors > from F-Spot and make them part of the community extensions. Then that can be > released separately and as often as necessary to address necessary updates. > It would also hopefully dramatically lower the bar for extension creation > with some much needed automation (for reference the entirety of this idea > and a lot of the initial set-up comes from the Banshee Community Extensions > project). So, to me that would be an excellent place for this. > > However, I'm sure if you create a patch or put the code in a repository > that can be pulled from then it could be included in the next release -- > whenever that is. You would need to create a repository based on the latest > code from the GNOME git repository and make sure the new exporter is > integrated at all levels including makefiles and Monodevelop solution. And > be sure not to introduce any warnings, I'm counting. :) > > Additionally, you could check into making your own, online, controlled > F-Spot repository for add-ins. Users could then add that repository to their > F-Spot add-in manager and get the add-in directly from you. That gives you > maximum control if you want to provide updates often. > > When I get the F-Spot Community Extensions project ready for developers to > add extensions I will post here. Hope this helps. > > > > cheers, > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Petr H. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to find out the possibility to include a new extension/exporter >> directly into F-spot. >> >> rajce.net is the largest photo-sharing web site in Czech Republic, >> currently having about 500,000 users, sharing about 250,000,000 photos and >> videos grouped in 4,000,000 albums. We offer many possibilities how to >> upload photos from Windows platform (desktop application, webupload, shell >> extension, plugins for Lightroom, Picasa and Windows Live Gallery), but we'd >> like to cover somehow Linux platform too. The idea was to extend two >> existing possibilities (desktop application running under Wine, webupload) >> with plugins for favorite personal photo management applications (like >> F-spot is). >> The first version of our plugin for F-spot has been almost completed, see >> attached picture (Fedora sample). My question sounds like that: >> Would it be possible to include this exporter among built-in extensions of >> F-spot (by adding a source code to the tree and doing appropriate >> maintenance) ? Or is the current set of built/in extensions "closed", so our >> possibility is only to offer a separate "external" plugin for F-spot ? >> >> Best regards >> Petr Henych >> rajce.net developer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> f-spot-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list >> >> >
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