Postr - GNOME Flickr Uploader
Postr is a Flickr uploading tool for the GNOME desktop, which aims to be simple to use but exposing enough of Flickr to be useful. It isn't finished yet, but its a very capable uploader already.
- The latest release is 0.12
- Please report any bugs or feature requests in the GNOME Bugzilla
- The source is maintained in a Bazaar repository, there are stable and development branches.
Postr 0.12
A quick Postr 0.12 release, mainly to fix an annoying bug but there are some neat new features here too.
- Update the status bar after uploading
- Add a Switch User menu item
- Add Add/Remove buttons to the image pane
- Install the Nautilus extension to the new extension path
- Don't select groups when the name is clicked
- Don't display errors when posting to moderated groups
- Show a warning on exit if there are images to upload (thanks Germán Póo-Caamaño)
The tarball is here, and packages for Debian have been uploaded.
Postr 0.11
I finally got around to fixing the very annoying text wrapping problem in postr.dev, I thought I best release Postr 0.11:
- Add Send To Group options
- Add Privacy and Safety options
- Use a multi-line entry for the Description field
- Show the user's name in the status bar
- Fix the resizing of the preview
The tarball is here, and packages for Debian have been uploaded.
Postr 0.10
A new year, a new release of Postr. This release has some useful bug fixes. Now to finish off that grand refactoring...
- Use the GNOME proxy if set
- Don't try and upload images over 10Mb, as Flickr will reject them
- Add a big Upload button to the window
- Fall back on ISO-8859-1 when reading metadata
- Don't show error dialogs with no message
The tarball is here, and packages for Debian are building now.
Postr 0.9
A quick release of Postr fixing a few little bugs.
- Fix handling of more EXIF tags
- Add 24x24 icon (thanks Michael Monreal)
- Add the version number to the UI (thanks Claudio Saavedra)
The tarball is here, and packages for Debian/Ubuntu are building now.
Postr 0.8
Finally, a new Postr release. Nothing amazing here, just some internal refactoring and better error handling. If an error occurs when talking to Flickr a dialog box will popup, which will help a great deal.
The tarball is here, and packages for Debian/Ubuntu are building now.
NP: Sleep, DJ Olive
Postr 0.7
Postr 0.7 is out, fixing a couple of very nasty bugs.
- Don't silently stop uploading if no set was selected
- Unquote URIs when accepting drags
Tarballs at the usual place, packages heading towards Debian shortly.
NP: Flight 602, Aim
Postr 0.6
Postr 0.6 is here! What is new I hear you ask. Well:
- Really parse embedded IPTC data
- Sweet new look for the side bar (thanks Lucas Rocha)
- Ability to select a set to upload the pictures too
- New icon (thanks Andreas Nilsson)
The tarball is in the usual place, and I'll make Debian packages shortly.
NP: Konfusion, Skalpel
Postr Bugs
Not that Postr has any bugs (cough), but if you happen to find any then they can be filed in the all new Postr product on GNOME's Bugzilla.
NP: Minima Moralia, Chihei Hatakeyama
Postr Category
Quick poll for Planet Gnome, and any other interested folks. Should Postr, my Flickr uploading applicaton, appear in the Graphics submenu on the panel, or the Internet submenu? Answers on a postcard to the usual address, or post a comment if you want. Thanks!
NP: Rideau, Tape
Wanted: Postr Icon
Wanted: icon for Postr. I'm not sure what sort of design I'd like for a Flickr uploader, maybe a photo frame in front of the "web browser" globe icon would do the job. Thanks to anyone who does a rocking icon!
NP: Kaleidoscope, DJ Food
Postr 0.5
Postr 0.5 is out. This has a few fixes:
- Catch errors throw by EXIF or IPTC parsing
- New flickrpc (cleaner code, works with Python 2.5)
You can follow the development in the Bazaar branch, or get the Postr 0.5 tarball.
Asynchronous Flickr Library, version 0.2
Flickrpc 0.2 is released. This has several improvements:
- Re-license to LGPL
- Don't use an intermediate deferred, instead chain them (thanks Andrew Bennetts)
- Clean up errback handlers (thanks Andrew Bennetts)
- Try to import xml.etree for Python 2.5
Basically no new features but it now works on Python 2.5 without an external ElementTree, the code is cleaner, and it's LGPL instead of GPL. Grab a tarball here or the bzr tree here.
NP: The Good, The Bad, And The Queen
Postr 0.4
Postr 0.4 is finally out. This has an all-new Flickr library that uses Twisted, so I don't need to use threads any more. I've had lots of contributions to this release, in fact the change log is too long to summarise... Special features include a Nautilus context menu, GtkUnique support, and a lack of thread related crashes.
Thanks to Germán Poó Caamaño, Emmanuele Bassi, Dean Sas and Daniel Stone for their patches and feedback.
You can follow the development in the Bazaar branch, or get the Postr 0.4 tarball.
Testers Wanted
I've got a new version of Postr ready for release, but would like someone else to test it before I release it as quite a lot of the important code has been, well, rewritten.
So, to any potential testers: using Bazaar clone this repository, install Twisted (python-twisted-core on Debian/Ubuntu), delete ~/.flickr/c53cebd15ed936073134cec858036f1d/auth.xml (the cached authentication tokens) and try and upload a photo. If anyone gives it a go please leave comments or email me, so I can fix any bugs.
Thanks!
Asynchronous Flickr Library, version 0.1
I'm finally releasing version 0.1 of my Flickr library, flickrpc. The name is actually misleading, and I should change it for 1.0, as the class name is flickrest and the transport protocol is HTTP/REST, not XML-RPC (as was the original plan, thus the name). This library is written in Python and uses Twisted.
- Why another Flickr library?
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Because Postr required it. All of the existing libraries that I know of are blocking (I used to use Beej's flickrapi, which was based upon Michele Campeotto's flickrclient), which makes using them in GUI applications painful. Early versions of Postr used threads so that uploading could be done in the background without blocking the UI, but as Postr makes more calls to Flickr whilst being used interactively these threads will become a maintaince nightmare. By using Twisted all of the network operations are handled in the main loop, and I can write callback-based network code just like I write callback-based UI code.
- Why Twisted?
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Because it works, and is popular. If someone has a HTTP client library that integrated into the GLib mainloop and will expose callbacks when operations complete, please tell me. I love what Twisted gives me, but at the end of the day if there is a simplier solution, I'll consider it.
- Sounds excellent! Where can I get it?
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There is a tarball of 0.1 available here: flickrpc-0.1.tar.gz. If you want to track the latest development, or contribute patches, there is also a Bazaar archive.
Postr 0.3
Postr 0.3 is out. A few typo fixes in my code, and an update to the latest flickrapi.py to fix uploads after the Flickr servers decided to be more pedantic. This was proof that I am the only user of Postr, as it didn't work for a good week or so.
- Update flickrapi.py to version 10
- Fix references to the token
You can follow the development in the Bazaar branch, or get the Postr 0.3 tarball.
Postr 0.2
Postr 0.2 is finally out. I didn't get around to finished the all new Flickr API, but instead there are a lot of bug fixes.
- Rewrite threading logic to fix various weird missing upload and "4 of 2" bugs.
- All-new progress dialog (Ross, Germán Poo Caamaño)
You can follow the development in the Bazaar branch, or get the Postr 0.2 tarball.
