Bug 199317 - Support title/description as Facebook Photo Caption [patch]
Summary: Support title/description as Facebook Photo Caption [patch]
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Plugin-WebService-Facebook (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-07-07 18:37 UTC by Mike McQuaid
Modified: 2018-01-30 21:27 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 2.2.0


Attachments
prototype fix of the caption issue in fb plugin (2.35 KB, patch)
2010-03-09 14:12 UTC, Jan Capek
Details
libexiv2 - Language alternative accessor fix (KExiv2::getXmpTagStringLangAlt()) (2.88 KB, patch)
2010-03-09 14:14 UTC, Jan Capek
Details

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Description Mike McQuaid 2009-07-07 18:37:41 UTC
Currently photos are uploaded from the Facebook KIPI Plugin without any Facebook caption. It would be great if there was a combobox in the import plugin which allowed the selection between "no caption", "title as caption" or "description as caption".

If this is acceptable I have commit access so with a few pointers I could implement this or at least fire a patch someone's way!

Thanks!
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2009-07-07 19:43:20 UTC
Before to patch something, use last stable kipi-plugins (0.4.0), or better, code from svn trunk.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Mike McQuaid 2009-07-07 19:49:05 UTC
I'm not on my computer at the moment so I just set the kipi-plugins to what I thought was the latest stable release. If I make a patch it will be against trunk.
Comment 3 Supreme1012 2009-08-07 01:52:06 UTC
I would like to have it to where it would be smart enough to save the names as tags. it could be done by reading the description and filtering out "In this photo: " saving the name as one tag and using a comma as the divider for the next tag. the comment saved as meta-data would be nice also. look at the facedown java program for an example on how to access the comment and tags on facebook. The gui also needs a little love. Im in the process of making a mockup of a better way to design the gui and will post it as a seperate wish towards this plugin.
Comment 4 Supreme1012 2009-08-07 03:28:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I would like to have it to where it would be smart enough to save the names as
> tags. it could be done by reading the description and filtering out "In this
> photo: " saving the name as one tag and using a comma as the divider for the
> next tag. the comment saved as meta-data would be nice also. look at the
> facedown java program for an example on how to access the comment and tags on
> facebook. The gui also needs a little love. Im in the process of making a
> mockup of a better way to design the gui and will post it as a seperate wish
> towards this plugin.

my apologies. i was commenting thinking u were talking about importing photos, not uploading them. my comment still stands, but concerning importing of photos
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2009-10-01 12:21:31 UTC
Mike,

any news to implement this feature against code from svn trunk. It's easy to do...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 6 Mike McQuaid 2009-10-03 09:09:02 UTC
I'm afraid I doubt I'll get to it any time soon, up to my eyes with real world stuff, sorry!
Comment 7 Edward Hughes IV 2009-10-12 23:31:42 UTC
I don't think this is too off-topic, but I've recently been considering something very similar (I also want this applied to the SmugMug plugin), only I've been wanting to use the tags and descriptions in Digikam for keywords/tags and the caption.  Since, as I understand it, kipi-plugins is "unaware" of the Digikam DB, I've been unsure of the best method to implement this idea.  Am I correct?  Where are the image description and tags, as seen in Gwenview, stored?

Any other thoughts?
Comment 8 Mark Purcell 2010-01-11 00:50:10 UTC
Another vote for this function:

http://bugs.debian.org/564574

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Subject: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#564574: facebook plugin: please set image description as a caption in facebook
Date: Sunday 10 January 2010
From: "Artur R. Czechowski" <arturcz@hell.pl>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Package: kphotoalbum
Version: 4.1.1-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,
Could you, please, add a functionality for facebook export plugin? If I
upload pictures to facebook I'd be glad to check an option to set current
image description as a caption in facebook album.

Regards
	Artur

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kphotoalbum depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime              4:4.3.4-2   runtime components from the offici
ii  kdelibs5                     4:4.3.4-1   core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexiv2-5                   0.18.2-1+b1 EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation li
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.4.2-7   GCC support library
ii  libjpeg62                    6b-15       The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkdcraw7                   4:4.3.4-1   RAW picture decoding C++ library (
ii  libkipi6                     4:4.3.4-1   library for apps that want to use 
ii  libmarble4                   4:4.3.4-1   Marble globe widget library
ii  libphonon4                   4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 Phonon module
ii  libqt4-dbus                  4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network               4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-qt3support            4:4.5.3-4   Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 
ii  libqt4-sql                   4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 SQL module
ii  libqt4-sql-sqlite            4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 SQLite 3 database driver
ii  libqt4-svg                   4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 SVG module
ii  libqt4-xml                   4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4                   4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                    4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6                   4.4.2-7     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  phonon                       4:4.5.3-4   Qt 4 Phonon module metapackage

Versions of packages kphotoalbum recommends:
pn  khelpcenter                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  kipi-plugins                  1.0.0-1    image manipulation/handling plugin

Versions of packages kphotoalbum suggests:
ii  mplayerthumbs                 4:4.3.4-1  video thumbnail generator for KDE 

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Comment 9 Jan Capek 2010-03-09 14:12:09 UTC
Created attachment 41474 [details]
prototype fix of the caption issue in fb plugin

The patch header contains more details
Comment 10 Jan Capek 2010-03-09 14:14:14 UTC
Created attachment 41475 [details]
libexiv2 - Language alternative accessor fix (KExiv2::getXmpTagStringLangAlt())

details are in the patch header
Comment 11 Jan Capek 2010-03-09 14:15:57 UTC
Hello,

I am not a KDE developer but was courious why this doesn't work as I needed to upload my vacation pics to FB. 

The problem is on two levels:

1) the kipi plugin -  doesn't specify the language alternative when querying the xmp and iptc metadata. The only case when a caption gets transferred to FB is when the user uses 'x-default' as the language alternative. In that case, it the caption lands in the a normal exif comment (in parallel to xmp and iptc) and that works. But we want to use XMP and iptc and all those nice things, right?
The underlying kexiv2 library, as an adapter for the exiv2 library, doesn't provide a 'default' caption value if no language has been specified. Therefore, I consider this as a bug in kipi plugins. The first patch (fb-caption-hack) shows how to get at least something from the FB backend for now. It calls for a separate UI control for the caption language alternative. The header in the patch explains the details. I have checked the upstream sources of the fb plugin and it looks like that language alternatives are not being handled there, too

2) kexiv2 - even if we specify a language alternative (as showed in fb-caption-hack patch), the captions still won't work. The reason is that kexiv2 is broken, too, and doesn't handle the caption correctly. 
It looks like kexiv2 relies on a broken/disappeared functionality of exiv2 and 
performs parsing of the language alternatives on its own instead of using the functionality available in exiv2 library. I am attaching a second patch(lang-alt-fix) that applies towards the kexiv2 library - in debian it's part of the entire kdegraphics package. I was not able to locate kexiv2's SVN repository on the web, so I cannot tell whether the patch is still relevant.
Comment 12 Eckhart Wörner 2010-03-30 00:47:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> part of the entire kdegraphics package. I was not able to locate kexiv2's SVN
> repository on the web, so I cannot tell whether the patch is still relevant.

SVN: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/libs/libkexiv2/
Web frontend: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdegraphics/libs/libkexiv2/
Comment 13 Jan Capek 2010-04-01 12:00:46 UTC
Just wondering if there is any will to get this fixed at least on the libkexiv2 level? Could anyone comment on the libkexiv2 patch that I have provided?

Thanks,

Jan
Comment 14 caulier.gilles 2011-08-29 13:41:50 UTC
Jan,

i don't have take a look at your Kexiv2 patch... I will do it...

But please take a look of the new feature to support image title in digiKam 2.2.0 :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155374

i currently review in-deep patches from this entry. Picasa and Flickr tool will support title property.

I will be nice to support title in Facebook tool too...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 15 caulier.gilles 2011-09-06 10:22:41 UTC
Jan,

To not lost your work, the libkexiv2 patch must be moved in another entry relevant of this library. 

The lead subject of this entry will be fixed by a near commit from :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155374

Please open a new file with your patch into digiKam/libkexiv2 component.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 16 caulier.gilles 2011-09-06 11:22:30 UTC
Git commit 2e106152329b8887aa35fc9c6dbc0c29fb241f86 by Petri Damstén.
Committed on 06/09/2011 at 13:06.
Pushed by pdamsten into branch 'master'.

- Image title support for flickr, picasa, facebook and gallery export.
- libkipi api changes
CCBUG: 155374
BUGS: 221195, 199317

M  +2    -0    CMakeLists.txt
M  +0    -7    batchprocessimages/CMakeLists.txt
M  +5    -0    batchprocessimages/tools/renameimageswidget.cpp
M  +9    -44   facebook/fbwindow.cpp
M  +1    -1    facebook/fbwindow.h
M  +1    -1    flickrexport/flickrwindow.cpp
M  +7    -11   galleryexport/gallerytalker.cpp
M  +2    -2    galleryexport/gallerytalker.h
M  +7    -29   galleryexport/gallerywindow.cpp
M  +6    -1    htmlexport/imageelement.h
M  +9    -0    kmlexport/kmlexport.cpp
M  +15   -3    picasawebexport/picasawebwindow.cpp
M  +5    -0    yandexfotki/yfwindow.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kipi-plugins/2e106152329b8887aa35fc9c6dbc0c29fb241f86