How to add title instead of filename while importing
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thany
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Posted: Tue, 2013-10-22 09:20
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I can't seem to get Gallery to pick the title rather than the filename for the title of a photo. The description is picked up just fine. I have installed and activated the EXIF and IPTC modules, and for the latter one I had to even pull it straight from github, because the zip file mentioned doesn't exist anywhere. But at least that means I have the latest version (whichever that is). But it still chooses the filename for a photo while importing. The correct title is being stored in IPTC:ObjectName for my pictures, as proven by XnView. My pictures are being exported from Lightroom 5.2 with ALL metadata included. I have also found this other topic that describes the same problem. It refers to a ticket that has been closed, but it doesn't seem fixed to me. My Gallery version is 3.0.3 Relevant platform info: Operating system: Linux 3.2.0-53-generic I'll attach an example image.
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Okay, a little update: upgraded (manually, sigh!) to version 3.0.9.
Still doesn't work. What do I do now?
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Okay, for now, I'll export pictures with the filenames being the titles. Let's see if that works.
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Yes, that works. Well enough for me anyway, but it won't be possible to include any characters in the title that would be illegal in a filename. So this bug still needs fixing!
In a sidenote: I would expect functionality as basic as this to work out of the box, without any plugins. A filename as a title makes very little sense in most scenarios. It's a "destructive" process, i.e. it modifies original files. I have my editing software export pictures with titles in the filenames, which shouldn't be neccesary. EXIF/IPTC data is too basic to just simply ignore, especially in a version 3, especially in this day and age.
I consider this a bug, plugin or not. If the developer considers it a feature request instead, fine. As long as it gets implemented.
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http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:stadfed
http://galleryproject.org/node/112056
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Please update the ticket with your findings and reopen as necessary.
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Ticket updated.
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I'll look into the satdfed module, but I'll have to treat it as a workaround, not a solution.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say by mentioning topic 112056.