23hq export

[jan uos de]

Hello!

First of all: Thx for developing F-Spot, it is an excellent photo
management software! :-)

I have recently started to use 23hq.com and would like to use F-Spot to
prepare my pictures for upload to 23hq.com. I am not doing any tagging
or anything, so I think my requirements are very basic. Before uploading
I'd like to:

  (1) Delete some photos
  (2) Correctly orientate some photos
  (3) Add a description (aka comment) to some photos

This all can be accomplished much quicker with F-Spot then using the
(sometimes slow) webinterface of 23hq.com.

So far, so good. Unfortunately I had to discover, that the export to
23hq.com gets in the way of (2) and also makes (3) somewhat annoying.

As far as (2) is concerned: The 23hq export uploads the photo in its
original orientation, ignoring any chances made to the orientation in
F-Spot. I looked around in the source of some other extensions and
noticed that some of them would correct the orientation. I added
similar code to the FlickrExport extension, which was easy enough (see
[1]). I hope this can be part of future F-Spot versions.
Another way of doing this, might be to expose the option of 'Auto
rotate' in the 23hq export dialog and only do this when it's checked. I
personally can't think of any reason though, why one would want the
original (wrong) orientation.

Regarding (3): If a photo has a comment it shows up as the description
in 23hq after the export. This is good. On the other hand, when a photo
has no comment, the description in 23hq will instead be the file name of
the photo (usually some cryptic dscn4242.jpg). I see not much use in
this and find it very annoying, because I have to manually delete all
these descriptions in the 23hq webinterface afterwards. The description
for me is something for other people to learn about the photo, I think
they could care less what its file name is.
Right now it is beyond my abilities to fix this in the F-Spot sources
though. Should I open a bug about this? Or is this for some reason the
desired behaviour?

Cheers!

Jan

[1] Patch for correct orientation of Flickr/23hq exported photos.

Index: extensions/FlickrExport/FlickrExport.cs
===================================================================
--- extensions/FlickrExport/FlickrExport.cs	(Revision 3904)
+++ extensions/FlickrExport/FlickrExport.cs	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@
 					FilterSet stack = new FilterSet ();
 					if (scale)
 						stack.Add (new ResizeFilter ((uint)size));
+
+					stack.Add (new OrientationFilter ());
 					
 					string id = fr.Upload (photo, stack, is_public, is_family, is_friend);
 					ids.Add (id);