On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Robert Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems that there is a conflict with the handling of the facebook photo > upload API key in certain open source software. Some projects are being > banned from facebook for this. I don't know if Shotwell handles the key in > the same way as gwenview , digiKam, and other KDE apps, but if it does it > may > run into the same problem that has happened over there. It seems that > facebook not only bans the app, it also deletes all user content that was > uploaded by the app. There is an informative bug report open at KDE and I > would suggest the Shotwell devs compare notes to make sure that our content > uploaded through Shotwell does not get deleted for the same reason. > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276609 > Hi Robert, It sounds like it was not just KDE apps, and it wasn't related to an API key; it was a more general change to the way Facebook automatically blacklists applications. From the sound of things, they got a bit overzealous with spam prevention and blacklisted too many apps by accident. More details on this forum post: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355340#p355340 Do let us know if you experience any issues uploading to Facebook from Shotwell. I bookmarked their "disabled app appeal" page just in case. - Eric _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
