GSoC 2009/Projects/Picasa plugin for Canola

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:
  • http://github.com/andrei1089/canola-picasa/tree (main repository)
  • http://code.openbossa.org/projects/canola-picasa-plugin

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 (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)

Low priority tasks

• add option to select thumbs location

Screenshots

• http://picasaweb.google.com/canolapicasa/CanolaPicasaScreenshots?feat=directlink
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbagUM3gqGM

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.

Reports

• Report 1 - Discussion
• Report 2 - Discussion
• Report 3 - Discussion