Hi Tona,

Thanks to your example photo, we've been able to pinpoint the problem
and clarify the language of the ticket we opened here
(http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5257). One quick question though: are
you sure you used only iPhoto to manipulate the image? Did you use any
plugins or utilities?

Lucas

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Tonatiuh Medina <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm... maybe that was not a good example.
>
> Please try again with the new pic attached. I just confirmed it with the
> attached pic that the tag gets created.
>
> I have Shotwell 0.12.2. It came with my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tona,
>>
>> I just tried to reproduce the problem you described with the
>> DSC_0240.jpg file attached to your previous message and I couldn't.
>> When I imported DSC_0240.jpg, only two tags -- "Photography Class" and
>> "Flowers" -- were created by Shotwell during import, as you can see in
>> the attached screenshot.
>>
>> That said, there's a lot of variability over Linux installations as
>> regards what operating systems, libraries, etc., are installed. So to
>> help us figure out why this problem is affecting you and not us, could
>> you answer the following. What distro and distro version are you
>> running? What version of Shotwell are you running? How did you acquire
>> Shotwell -- did it come with your distro, did you install it from a
>> third-party repo, or did you build it from source? When you run these
>> commands
>>
>>    $ pkg-config --modversion exiv2
>>
>>    $ pkg-config --modversion gexiv2
>>
>> in a terminal window, what do they output?
>>
>> Lucas
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Tonatiuh Medina <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> We should look into this.  I've created a ticket at
>> >>
>> >> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5257
>> >>
>> >> adam
>> >
>> >
>> > Awesome! I found a bug!
>> > I would expand and simplify the ticket to: "Xmp.dc.title creates tags
>> > during
>> > import - it shouldn't"- It really boils down to that.
>> > The iPhoto export was merely incidental, other tools might set that
>> > field
>> > and have the same result.
>> >
>> > cheers!
>> > Tona
>> >
>> > Note: iPhoto seems to write their 'tags' (they called them "Keywords")
>> > to
>> > Iptc.Application2.Keywords and Xmp.dc.subject (yes, to both).
>> >
>> > Here the Iptc and Xmp fields of a pic (attached) which can be used to
>> > reproduce the problem.
>> > It had the iPhoto Keywords: "Flowers" "Photography Class" - I was
>> > expecting
>> > those tags - but I was also getting a Shotwell tag "DSC_0240", and I
>> > workaround it by removing all XMP fields - hence I think Shotwell is
>> > using Xmp.dc.title as a tag too, and that's really the problem IMO:
>> >
>> > Iptc.Envelope.CharacterSet                   String      3  ESC%G
>> > Iptc.Application2.RecordVersion              Short       1  2
>> > Iptc.Application2.Caption                    String     46  This was
>> > taken
>> > on my lunch outside the office.
>> > Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String      7  Flowers
>> > Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String     17  Photography
>> > Class
>> > Iptc.Application2.ObjectName                 String      8  DSC_0240
>> > Xmp.dc.description                           LangAlt     1
>> >  lang="x-default"
>> > This was taken on my lunch outside the office.
>> > Xmp.dc.subject                               XmpBag      2  Photography
>> > Class, Flowers
>> > Xmp.dc.title                                 LangAlt     1
>> >  lang="x-default"
>> > DSC_0240
>> > Xmp.aux.SerialNumber                         XmpText    20  NO= 2004a20f
>> >
>> > Xmp.aux.Lens                                 XmpText    41  AF-S DX
>> > Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED
>> > Xmp.aux.LensID                               XmpText     9  742166022
>> > Xmp.aux.ImageNumber                          XmpText     5  10658
>> > Xmp.aux.FlashCompensation                    XmpText     3  0/1
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Well, I think that Xmp.dc.title should
>> >> > not be considered as a tag in Shotwell
>> >> > during the import. Please remove it
>> >> > from the tag list
>> >>
>> >> Just to be clear, Shotwell should *not* create tags from the
>> >> Xmp.dc.title field. It will create tags from the Xmp.dc.subject field,
>> >> but not Xmp.dc.title. If it does create tags from Xmp.dc.title, this
>> >> is a bug.
>> >>
>> >> Lucas
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
>
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