PicasaWebExport kipi-plugin is broken

[Jonas Norlander]

Binary package hint: kipi-plugins

The PicasaWebExport kipi-plugin don't work to upload any pictures to a picasaweb album. It's a known bug and is supposed to be fixed in 0.1.6-beta1. I propose the fix to be backported to kipi-plugins 0.1.5.
I'm using Kubunty Hardy (up to date)

From a mail from the Digikam-users maillist:

this have been fixed in current kipi-plugins 0.1.6-beta1.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kipi/kipi-plugins-0.1.6-beta1.tar.bz2?modtime=1212015146&big_mirror=0

Best

Gilles Caulier

2008/7/12 **********************
> Hi Guys,
>
> I had to upload some photos to Picasaweb. The plugin launched, connected to
> the server seemingly successfully (the plugin never gives any feedback
> regarding interaction with the server). I created a new album sucessfully
> (saw the operation had worked via Firefox), but the album dropdown remained
> blank. I tried uploading photos anyway, the progress bar window popped up,
> but never went anywhere, and none of the photos got to the server (again
> checked thru Firefox).
>
> I am using Digikam 0.9.3. on KDE 3.5.9, Kubuntu Hardy, Kipi libraries 0.1.5
>
> I know I should write to the plugin maker, but has anybody on the list had
> similar or any experiences with this plugin?

[Jonas Norlander (jonorland)]

This and other bugs is fixed in 0.1.6 that got out today. Snip from the mail:

Kipi-plugins BUG FIX from KDE bugzilla:

001 ==> 162687 : FlickrExport : Make Flickr Export screen non-modal.
002 ==> 162683 : FlickrExport : Export to picassaweb doesn't works.
003 ==> 164152 : FlickrExport : Geotagging when exporting to Flickr.
004 ==> 166712 : PrintWizard : Choosing the part which is cut off for printing only works for the first photo.
005 ==> 162994 : PicasaWebExport : Picasa album list does not contain "not listed" albums, contains only "public" albums.
006 ==> 150912 : PicasaWebExport : Uploader does not upload.
007 ==> 164908 : PicasaWebExport : Private albums are not listed (and then not usable).
008 ==> 150979 : PicasaWebExport : Picasa Export-Plugins does not work.

I really hope this will be fixed for Hardy now as pathes has been available for several months.

Thanks

[Luka Renko (lure)]

There is very low probability that this will be backported to Hardy. Can you test Intrepid version and/or KDE4 version of KIPI-Plugins (available in Jaunty and digikam-experimental PPA for Intrepid).

[Jonas Norlander (jonorland)]

Still don't work in Intrepid. I would really like to test digikam-experimental but cant. I added the PPA but it must be some dependencies error in the Intrepid package because it want to pull in some kdelibs (4.1.96) from Jauntu.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

This is fixed in Jaunty, but users will have to upgrade to KDE4 version.