Re: 23hq export

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

(1) and (3) could be fixed quite easily, and you'd better file 2
enahncement request for those ("remove pictures from selection before
import" and "do not use filename as comment on export").

As for (2), the check is not there cause Flickr is able, via a
preference somewhere, to rotate them according to the orientation flag
set by f-spot. And as the code is shared between Flickr and 23hq, that's
why that option isn't there.

So, you should search for such an option in 23hq. If there's none, we
could add a checkbox only in the 23hq case. But anyway you should file a
bug against 23hq.com


regards

s

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 19:52 -0600, jan uos de wrote:
> 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);
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