Re: flickr as datasource

["Thomas Van Machelen" <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

Hi,

2007/8/28, John Stowers <john stowers gmail com>:
> I use photo-sets more than tags for this type of organization. They are
> pretty close to albums.
>
>  I think it would be appropriate to be able to specify a photo-set that the
> photos may be added to during upload. I would like to remove tags from the
> upload UI altogether. When something like tracker gets into GNOME then
> conduit should just work, and pick up the tags from there.
>

Ok, nice to hear; that's the way i'll do it then.

> The downside with the sets approach, vs that of tags, is that adding a photo
> to a set is a second API call, and cannot be specified during upload. Also,
> the user refers to sets by name, and conduit will have to do some calls in
> refresh() to map photo-set names to photo-set ids.
>

That's our problem, not that of the users, so it shouldn't be a
barrier. :-)  Both picasa and smugmug providers do it that way already
i think.

Regards,
Thomas