[Kde-imaging] [Bug 153207] flickr export without using application tags: Flickr still reads embedded metadata into tags

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------- Additional Comments From x3ri7yz02 sneakemail com  2008-05-25 16:33 -------
Hi Lionel,  

I think perhaps Gilles has referenced the wrong bug in the code snippet you refer to (inside FlickrTalker::addPhoto).  Instead of this bug (#153207) I think the UTF-8 related comment was meant to apply to #155270 ( http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155270 )  Gilles has been busy fixing Flickr export bugs recently!  Hopefully this answers your question.

As an aside, I think the logic you have above is correct: regardless of the user's intentions, it works better if the tags are stripped out of IPTC.  Although I didn't mention it in the first report, if Flickr reads the tags from IPTC, they are also rendered like this:
Places/London/London Bridge

rather than what the user probably wants:
Places
London
London Bridge

So stripping the IPTC tags out and (optionally) having Digikam send them makes sense and is an elegant solution.   

Testing with the latest SVN version:  Unfortunately, the problem is only half fixed: it works perfectly as long as there is only ONE IPTC tag.  If there are multiple IPTC tags, only the first is removed.  The remainder are preserved, and then read into Flickr.

It appears the code only removes one (the first) IPTC tag.  It should remove ALL IPTC tags in the image.

To reproduce:  upload any image with multiple IPTC tags.  If "Use Application tags" is de-selected, no tags should be sent.  But all tags except the first one still show up on Flickr.

Gilles - I will re-open this bug for now if that's OK with you?  If you would prefer me to open a new bug, let me know.