Hi Om, Thanks for bringing up the issues. My replies are inlined.
On 7/2/07, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 02:33 +0800, Shyam Mani wrote: > On 6/29/07, Manish Rai Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I rarely post anything over in this list, but thought you guys might be > > interested in this. Enjoy! > > Manish, > > Thanks for the info, I'll surely give it a whirl and let you know :) > Hmm.. I was just using it yesterday after battling with juploaR (which is nice and good, but doesn't offer the capability to DL/sync the pictures from Flickr) I then saw flickrfs, (which I initially thought was in gentoo portage (supposed to have gotten included on Jun 24 but a sync later still didn't see it) Downloaded version 0.3.1 and ran w/o any issues. Ran into some troubles and wanted to send some feedback, (marred by the need to register into google(can't remember my gmail acc user/pass) but didn't. Anyway.. since you're posting here.. here's my 2 cents. (I would love to debug it for you, but this thing runs on mono, which is uncharted territory for me) 1. No intuitive was to add new tags to pictures. (after meddling around, I found out that I can just directly type in a new tag in the "edit" box. DUH!)
You can click on "Tags" tab, and easily drag n drog photos to add tags to them. Similarly, you can easily drag drop photos to the 'Flames Window' to remove tags. Other than that, you can do multiple photos tag editing. 2. Syncs w/ flickr is not real-time(?) eg: I upload picture to flickr,
upload is successful. (shows up in the flickr website), but not in DFO. Do a sync again, still no new uploaded pics. Shutdown (entirely) and restart a couple of times, even to the extend of deleting the .desktopflickr directory and re-syncing again. Works maybe half the time. (IIRC)
The reason it doesn't show up is because of flickr apis' responses slowness. They take easily upto half an hour to catch up with updates. Especially new uploaded photos can even take more than that, to show up in the 'retrieve stream' api. I've asked them couple of times if they're working upon that, but seems like this is just something we've to get used to. The edits done to photos, may also show similar glitches, but give it enough time, and it would show you the expected results. Also keep seeing a (known) mono bug?
(DesktopFlickrOrganizer.exe:14948): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Unknown tag 'a' on line 2 char 100
This was a bug with Pango, and has been fixed in v0.4. 3. No way to resize the Window size. (this is bad for ppl w/ small
screen sizes. I work on 1280x1024 / 1440x1050 / 1680x1050 screen sizes so it's still bearable for me. (else it would mean dragging left/right)
Fixed in v0.4. The new version also "remembers", the resizing done to the window by you. 4. The Upload photos option can be made better. (current gnome file-menu
has deficiency in that it offers no preview/thumbnail mode so you can see what you want to upload in the dialog box. Would like to have another box much like the "Drag photos here to remove from set/permanently" and one can have a nautilus (with preview) enabled in another window to drag/drop.
Good idea, I'll add the feature in the next version. 5. Still way much better than fireuploader. (though lacks in comparison
to juploadR due to the drag/drop interface)
Great. 6. Is there a preference to do the photo resizing? No, it currently uploads the original size of the photo. This is something the later versions would allow though. BTW, great piece of application, even with all the above items. Since I
just hate dealing with the website, even if it's like AJAX'ified as it's slow and counter-intuitive. Let me know if I can help.
Thanks a lot for offering, would surely let you know if I do. Btw, the new version also comes with a 'Pool' tab, so you can easily drag-drop add/remove photos from Group pools.
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