Eye of GNOME Plugins

Available plugins

Plugins part of the eog-plugins repository:

• Postr

  • Support uploading photos to Flickr

  • Requires: Postr

  • Language: C

• Map (aka champlain in the source code)

  • Displays on a map in the side panel where the picture was taken. Pictures need to contain geolocation EXIF data.

  • Requires: libchamplain

  • Language: C

• Python Console

  • A python console for Eye of GNOME

  • Language: Python

• Slideshow Shuffle

  • Shuffles the photos in slideshow mode

  • Language: Python

• Zoom to fit image width

  • Adjusts the zoom to have the image's width fit into the window

  • Language: C

• Exif Display

  • Displays a few camera setting Exif tags in the sidebar and optionally the statusbar. A histogram can also be enabled.

  • Language: C

Third party plugins

Plugins developed by third parties available on their web site:

• Conduit Photo Site Uploader

  • Support synchronizing/uploading photos to Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug and Facebook Gives the ability to resize photos before upload.

  • Language: Python

  • Download: http://www.conduit-project.org/ (build conduit > 0.3.4 with --enable-eog-plugin)

Ideas

• Tags side pane (aka "F-Spot mode")
• File browser side pane
• Photo feeds side pane (support for adding, removing, and viewing photo feeds)
• Flickr Uploader (aka Postr integration)
• Conduit integration
• Post Image in your Blog (integration with gnome-blog)
• Add watermark to Image
• Location metadata in statusbar
• Creative Commons Licence in statusbar
• Color Picker
• Quick crop/rotate

Plugin basic info

• Location: They can be stored in $HOME/.gnome2/eog/plugins/ or /usr/lib/eog/plugins

Installing plugins: Quick run-through

Here's how to find and install some plugins without being root. On Ubuntu you will need to first install the "eog-dev" package. Installing "postr" is also required for the the Flickr integration to work.

• cd $HOME/.gnome2
• ln -s . lib
• git clone git://git.gnome.org/eog-plugins
• cd eog-plugins
• ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/.gnome2/
• make install

Now when you run eog, you can do:

• Edit->Preferences

• Click the Plugins tab
• Check the box next to the plug-in you want to enable

and now, in the Tools menu, you'll have an "Upload to Flickr" entry provided by a plugin! Notice that if you have the collection window open, you can select multiple photos to send to Flickr at once.

Ubuntu Prerequisites

If you use ubuntu, you need to install these packages at first:

sudo apt-get install eog-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libexif-dev libexif-gtk-dev postr libclutter-0.8-dev libclutter-gtk-0.8-dev

Additionally, you need to download libchamplain-0.2 and libchamplain-gtk-0.2 from the libchamplain download page and then install them.

Writing plugins:

Python

Create a file called helloworld.eog-plugin:

[Eog Plugin]
Module=libhello
IAge=2
Loader=python
_Name=Hellloooooooooo
Icon=postr
_Description=Print a greeting to the console where eog is running
Authors=Asheesh Laroia <eog-oh-baby@asheesh.org>
Copyright=Copyright © 2007 Creative Commons
Website=about:mozilla

Now create a file called libhello.py:

   1 import eog
   2 
   3 class HelloWorldPlugin(eog.Plugin):
   4         def __init__(self):
   5                 eog.Plugin.__init__(self)
   6 
   7         def activate(self, window):
   8                 print 'The answer landed on my rooftop, whoa'
   9 
  10         def deactivate(self, window):
  11                 print 'The answer fell off my rooftop, woot'

Now, move all of these to ~/.gnome2/eog/plugins/