Re: Online Desktop integration ideas

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I'm a bit worried that you're going a bit over the top here. "Work well
> with Flickr" is superiour than syncing raw files, but it seems like
> you're proposing to shove *all* your photos to flickr and not store
> anything locally. I think it would make more sense to just integrate
> very tightly to Flickr so that you can easily pick out what photos you
> want to put on Flickr instead of just dumping everything there.

It's just a question of designing the specific photo app to meet 
people's needs, it's all best sorted out in the specific design.

For example the app could encourage you to trash junky photos, and mark 
the others public or private, and choose appropriate places to put 
photos based on how you mark them. Flickr itself has a 
private/friends-only/family-only/public choice, right?

Personally I would not want any photos I care about to be kept *only* 
locally, though I might want to choose a service other than Flickr or 
whatever, and might want to be able to prune out pictures of my thumb 
before uploading.

I'm sure for the foreseeable future any photo app will be configurable 
in this respect, local vs. Picasa vs. Flickr vs. rsync-to-a-shell-account.

Anyway, really, there's no danger of "going over the top"! That is 
hardly GNOME's current problem. Going over the top is always easy to 
fix; just back off a bit, fix the design bugs, add a couple of special 
cases. Aim high then fix the details.

Havoc