[KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum / Xnview IPTC import - comments from your blog... solutions?

[Jan Kundrát]

Just Lettuce wrote:
> Ok, here's a sample.  Has four keywords added in XnView.  When I first 
> import to KPhotoAlbum (copy to folder used by KPhoto) the photo appears 
> with no caption or keywords.

That's a bug that was fixed after the release of 3.1.1. The commit that 
fixes this issue can be found at [1].

> When I run the re-read metadata option, I 
> get the caption and the first keyword.  Also noting now that when I 
> right click on it and "show exif info" that the keywords do show under 
> iptc.application2 - so they are in the file, just not being picked up by 
> KPA.

OK, that was a pretty stupid bug. I've just fixed it [2]. But there's a 
problem -- the KDE3 branch is officially declared dead and unmaintained, 
and we're focusing our development on the kde4 branch. The glitch is 
that there's no IPTC support in the kde4 branch yet (and perhaps it 
won't be present in the first release for kde4, as I'm currently more 
than busy with my bachelor's thesis). This means that while the patch is 
in the SVN, it will *never* be included in any release, so if you are 
relying on a pakcage from your distribution, you likely won't get the 
fix, and you'll have to build the package yourself.

Or, if there's anyone volunteering to do the 3.1.2 release, please be my 
guest :).

Cheers,
-jkt

[1] http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=870313
[2] http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=946536

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