Fwd: F-Spot dataprovider

["John Stowers" <john stowers gmail com>]

Oops I replied off list.

There is already a bug and patch at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512146

John

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Stowers <john stowers gmail com>
Date: Jan 27, 2008 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: F-Spot dataprovider
To: Trond Andersen <trond andersen gmail com>


On Jan 27, 2008 10:54 AM, Trond Andersen <trond andersen gmail com> wrote:
> Hey John.
>
> > On Jan 26, 2008 11:21 AM, Trond Andersen <trond andersen gmail com> wrote:
> > > I've tried the F-Spot dataprovider to transfer pictures to my Picasa
> > > Webalbum. I've configured the F-Spot provider to synchronize a
> > > specific tag, but when running it from the console it returns:
> > >
> > > Delta: Got 0 items.
> > >
> > > It also gives me an error message stating the following:
> > >
> > > [DeltaProvider       ][INFO   ] Delta: Source
> > > (FspotSource-trond xxxxxx) does not implement get_changes().
> > > Proxying... (DeltaProvider.py:25)
> > >
> > > Does this relate to the fact that it doesn't seem to find any items
> > > that should be synchronized?
> >
> > Hi Trond, thanks for your mail,
> >
> > Please ensure that you are running both Conduit and FSpot from SVN.
> > Also ensure that you add the "FSpot DBus dataprovider" (FSpot must be
> > running for it to be visible in the Conduit GUI). We are going to be
> > depreciating the old FSpot interface soon, and only using the DBus one
> > as it allows twoway sync.
> I was running F-Spot while this happened. The DBus name in the other
> F-Spot provider should probably be named something else. A regular
> user shouldn't know about DBus.

Exactly, but remember, regular users also don't run from SVN, so at
this stage its more of a theoretical rather than a practical problem
:-)

All the changes you suggest are in progress, and will be dealt with
before the next stable release. Please see

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512146

>
> I tried the DBus provider for F-Spot, but when running it I got the
> following error-message:
>
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetTagNames" with
> signature "" on interface "org.gnome.FSpot.TagRemoteControl" doesn't
> exist
>
> The user interface to configure the dataprovider didn't manage to show
> any tags. The F-Spot version is 0.40 and Conduit is 0.3.6 built on
> Ubuntu 7.10.

Sounds like an old version of F-spot.

> Would you like a Bug report?

No its ok, please subscribe to the bug listed above. I am busy this
week at linux.conf.au but I will do a release sometime next week

Regards,

John

>
> Best regards,
> Trond Andersen
>