Re: Tabblo Export extension

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Great News. Hope you'll get good reviews so I could push it on the
addins.f-spot.org online repository

regards

s

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 11:41 +0200, Wojciech Dzierzanowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've attached my attempt at implementing a "Tabblo Export" extension
> to Bug 382658.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382658
> 
> It's (still) pretty crude, but it works.  I'm looking forward to
> getting some feedback on the code, and hoping that it may become a
> part of the F-Spot distribution eventually.
> 
> Most of the time, the extension was tested with F-Spot 0.4.3 on Ubuntu
> 8.04.  I have also verified that it works with the latest SVN version
> (although the manifest needs to reference a newer F-Spot Core for the
> extension to load properly).
> 
> These are the most obvious remaining open issues / shortcomings:
> 
>    o  On a default installation of Mono, the user will most likely
> encounter a `System.Net.WebException' when Tabblo Export tries to log
> in to Tabblo.  That's because log-in is implemented over HTTPS, and
> the default Mono installation doesn't trust the site the user is
> connecting to.  Please refer to the Mono sequrity FAQ,
> http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Security#WebRequest.Create.28.22https:.2F.2Fwww.anywhere.com.22.29.3B_throws_an_exception.
>  For now, I've chosen the third option described in the FAQ and
> managed with:
> 
>    $ mozroots --import --ask-remove
> 
>       Of course, I don't expect the F-Spot user to do that, and I
> guess there is a better way to handle this problem.  I just don't know
> it.
> 
>    o  F-Spot has tags.  Tabblo has tags.  Tabblo Export should allow
> the user to choose to export their photos along with tags.
> 
>    o  It would be nice to have an option to choose the privacy
> (private, circle, public) the exported photos should have in Tabblo.
> 
> 
> I'm willing to (help) fix these, but it can take some time as my
> resources are limited.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wojtek
> 
> P.S.  This is my first attempt at producing C# code or a GTK+ UI, so be kind :)
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