Re: picasa webalbums to digikam
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:09:04PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/12/27 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>:
> > Hi
> >
> > I set up a Lenny system for someone. One thing he wants to be able to
> > do is to download albums from the Picasa service of Google. I have
> > already set up pictures collections using digikam, and would prefer to
> > use it.
> >
> > Digikam is generally the only KDE program used, so I would consider
> > upgrading to kde2 if it helped. Though aparantly this is not supported
> > there (in kipi-plugins, specifically). I also heard that there mightt be
> > probles in such an upgrade if you have tags with non-ascii characters.
> >
>
> Tzafrir, I am having a hard time understanding exactly what you mean.
>
> > One thing he wants to be able to
> > do is to download albums from the Picasa service of Google.
>
> Does he want to make an album of his Digikam photos available via
> Picasa web service,
No. There's already a plugin to do that. Though I haven't tested it.
> or does he want to import a Picasa album to Digikam?
Yes
> Are we talking about Picasa the local app, or Picasa the web
> service in that case?
The web service ("webalbums").
>
> > Digikam is generally the only KDE program used, so I would consider
> > upgrading to kde2 if it helped.
>
> Do you mean KDE 4?
Right.
I only mentioned it as an option, not as a required solution.
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