GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 543863
GalleryExport uses the description as photo name
Last modified: 2009-03-29 10:16:02 UTC
Please describe the problem: GalleryExport uses the photo description as photo name Steps to reproduce: 1. Set a description on a photo 2. Upload it to gallery 2 Actual results: The photo name is the description. Expected results: I would expect to see the photoname as something like MyPhoto.JPG Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Created attachment 114854 [details] [review] Properly set photo name and description when uploading to Gallery(2) This patch fixes earlier ill behaviour, and properly sets photo name and description when uploading to Gallery(2). Tested with F-Spot 0.4.4 and Gallery2 (2.2.5)
fixed in r4244
I'm hoping this can be reverted or changed somehow. See bug 577130 for rationale, or just look here to see what I mean: http://photos.robla.net/gallery/v/2009/hidden/fspot543863
This is plain wrong. The comments field should never be used as a title... For the simple following reason. If GalleryExport were to export the comment as title, it would restrict anybody using the comments field to only use a few words as comment. For example I have a photo with the comments: "This is michelle posing for event blah, on blah... and so on" Which is a proper comment/description, but this would look odd as a title. Since it's much too long. The proper fix would be have a seperate title field in F-Spot. Using the description/comment as title is a very poor workaround which forces people to limit their use of the description/comment field as it's intended.