f-spot and flickr

f-spot and flickr

The announcement at the LCA welcome yesterday morning motivated me enough to a) get the photos off of my camera, b) hack f-spot again so it works with flickr, and c) blog about it.

So after trying for several hours to get stock f-spot and libgphoto in debian unstable to realise there was a camera plugged in the USB, Silvia offered a USB CF reader, which Just Worked, albeit was very slow :)

Then I had the joy of discovering that CVS f-spot no longer compiles with Mono in Debian unstable, but hacking the configure to accept the version I have installed, and commenting out the one line in some random export module that I won’t use that required the newer libraries, it compiled fine.

Turns out the new flickr auth patch still hasn’t been incorporated upstream. *hack*hack*hack*. Ok, so now it’s uploading to flickr! Yay!

The f-spot tags are broken when uploading though, so I dig around and just add doublequotes to each tag, so that “linux.conf.au 2006” isn’t broken up into two tags. Brilliant.

One more hack to make the photo title the first 30 characters of the comment, instead of some random filename, and it looks good.

Link to photoset in the next post, but right now it’s lunchtime!