While interoperability is generally a good thing to have, sharing databases mostly isn't (especially for strongly developing projects as shotwell) as it imposes too many restrictions and therefore hinders development. A better way to approach this IMO is to make use of import/export features - even though it may not be the simplest option from a user's POV - but then again, why use two tools that have much common ground for the same task? (yes, i know there are valid answers to that question)
An alternative might be to create a script which merges the shotwell sqlite DB with the mysql one from digikam.. For simple tag sharing, the current write-tags-back option already helps a lot in these scenarios. cheers andreas On Mit, 2011-03-09 at 00:17 +0100, Andreas Wallberg wrote: > Hi! > > There is a MySQL backend for Digikam. It would be neat if Shotwell > could be configured to access and use the same backend to not only > provide distributed database management but also seamless > interoperability with Digikam for any overlapping functionality, such > as tagging. The missing piece in the puzzle is then a server side > image gallery that hooks into the same database and can serve images > to the web. > > /Andreas > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Andreas Brauchli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since I haven't heard from any yorba official, I would like to point out > > that the application deadline for projects to GSoC 2011 is the 12th > > March. > > > > I think that it would be a missed opportunity not to participate, even > > though it would be understandable not to take part for the simple reason > > of needing to provide mentors which would remove manpower from the > > already small yorba team. > > > > Still I, and probably others, would love to spend a summer hacking on > > shotwell :) > > > > Best regards > > andreas > > > > On Son, 2011-02-13 at 23:37 +0100, Andreas Brauchli wrote: > >> Dear shotwell team > >> > >> are there any plans for yorba/shotwell to apply for the google summer of > >> code 2011? I've seen last year's wiki page [1] and would totally love to > >> work on shotwell this summer! > >> > >> What i have in mind is the idea of a multi-user/multi-computer shotwell > >> or shotwell server instance (something like [2]) so that a photo > >> collection can be simultaneously accessed and modified from multiple > >> frontends but would also allow each shotwell instance - think on a > >> laptop - to locally cache (parts of) the collection. > >> > >> Students, please voice yourselves to encourage yorba to apply for a gsoc > >> spot and to provide some mentors - and the others to suggest or point > >> out feature requests that would keep a student busy for a good summer of > >> code. > >> > >> GSoC website: http://www.google-melange.com/ > >> > >> cheers > >> andreas > >> > >> [1] http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas > >> [2] http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1572 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Shotwell mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Shotwell mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
