use IPTC comment as description for uploads

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. select a file for upload
2. select one of those photos
3. click Edit

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

It would be nice if the description contained text from the IPTC comment
field, if one is present.

Instead, it contains dfo-generated spam:
 Uploaded through <a href='http://code.google.com/p/dfo'>Desktop Flickr
Organizer</a>.
which I then have to delete.  Worse than nothing.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.7+svn45-1 on Debian lenny

Original issue reported on code.google.com by entr...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2007 at 2:14

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Original comment by manishrj...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2007 at 8:12

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Thanks for an excellent application! As a somewhat related addition to this 
ticket,
it would be great to also have it use the IPTC keywords to fill in the tags.

These two issues are what is keeping me from having an efficient work process 
when
uploading new images to flickr and keeping my collection organized.

Original comment by roger.kr...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2007 at 2:00

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That would be really helpful.

 If possible, title, description and tags (keywords) should be taken
 from EXIF/IPTC tags. It should also be possible to specify
 a default description and a default tag set somewhere.


 thanks fr this nice program!

Original comment by azummo-google@towertech.it on 28 Nov 2007 at 2:23

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Original comment by manishrj...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2008 at 3:13

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if it helps at all, exiv2 provides access to exif / itpc data

http://www.exiv2.org/sample.html

Original comment by nandish....@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2009 at 5:52

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I have access to the tags through other programs, I just don't want to have to
manually copy them when uploading to Flickr.  Postr gets it right, so I use that
instead of dfo.

Original comment by entr...@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2009 at 2:54

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But postr couldn't downloading your photos. I search for an application who can 
up-
and download my whole stuff and tag them nicely via IPTC and/or exif during it. 
And
this means tagging during uploading- but during downloading, too (if not 
allready
tagged in the metadata-fields).
So dfo would fit if it could tag uploaded and downloaded content, too...
flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/72157606754430516/ is annoying, none of 
them
work as needed... Migratr does it but downloaded only about the halve of the 
photos...

Original comment by stadion...@kiezkicker.de on 9 Aug 2009 at 8:07