ons 2011-03-23 klockan 08:38 -0500 skrev W. Michael Petullo: > > My name is Simon Lindgren and I am a CS student from Sweden interested > > in doing a GSOC project for F-Spot. I have previously asked a question > > about support for server-side metadata and photo storage, and this is > > basically my idea for a project: Implement server-side storage of > > metadata and photos and also support for synchronization between > > different computers. This is a solution to a (for me) very real problem, > > as I have both a laptop and a desktop and want to use my desktop when > > possible and my laptop otherwise. > > > > Can somebody comment on the feasibility of such a project? Is it a > > suitable project? > > You problem statement is a bit general, and there are several ways you > can accomplish what you describe. One of them (an Apple-centric solution) > is to implement DPAP (i.e., iPhoto sharing) support in F-Spot. I am the > maintainer of libdmapsharing, a library that implements DPAP, DAAP and > DACP. Currently, Rhythmbox uses libdmapsharing to implement DAAP (i.e., > iTunes sharing). One of my project suggestions [1,2] is to add > libdmapsharing-based DPAP support to F-Spot; I would be happy to mentor > a student working on this project within the GNOME Google Summer of Code > effort. Last year a student did work within GSoC to add DACP support > to libdmapsharing. > > I would envision that this project would: > > (likely) write Mono bindings for libdmapsharing > > add cient-side support for DPAP to F-Spot > > (possibly) add server-side support for DPAP to F-Spot > > The third bullet could be replaced by the use of dmapd [3]. Dmapd is a > dedicated DAAP and DPAP server. > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2011/Ideas > [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338186 > [3] http://www.flyn.org/projects/dmapd/ >
I am not familiar with the D?AP protocols and how they work, though I have heard of them. My impressions so far is that they are designed to access media sources on a LAN. Is this true? I was a bit vague on purpose, because as you say, there are many ways to accomplish this. My requirements on the design of this feature would be: * Support the full range of f-spot metadata (including plugin data). * Support the full range of operations available inside f-spot (ie. create new version, add images, add tags, ...) * Store at least metadata and thumbnails locally to enable browsing with reasonable performance. Basically, I want to synchronize all the data handled by f-spot. My personal use case for this is this: I grew up ~1000km from where I am now studying, so it is hard to move lots of stuff back and forth. This means that I will only bring my laptop with me, when going home during summers for example. This is also the time when I take the most pictures, so I need to import images to f-spot now and then, but my f-spot database is located on my desktop, which is more powerful and has a better screen. I want to be able to have my f-spot data on both computers, kept in sync automatically. Can this be accomplished using DPAP? -- Simon Lindgren _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
