Digikam cannot log into Facebook

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Binary package hint: kipi-plugins

To reproduce:

  1. Open digikam in GNOME
  2. From the top menu, select Export > Export to Facebook
  3. Click Change Account

You should see a modal dialogue box saying 'Please follow the instructions in the browser window. Press "Yes" if you have authenticated or "No" if you have failed'. However, no browser window shows, and therefore I cannot log into Facebook.

I am using the Digikam package in Ubuntu 9.10.

[Christian Mangold (neversfelde)]

I have no problems with Facebook im-/export, but I am obviously a KDE user. Is someone with GNOME able to test, if this is still an issue with kipi 1.2.0 in Lucid? Thanks in advance.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

Same problem in 10.04

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

Seems to work okay for me in KDE. I get the Konqueror window to log into Facebook, then Digikam can connect to it.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

GNOME is still broken as before, however.

[Gianluca Mei (gianluca-mei)]

Still broken to date, yet a quick turnaround is to use Firebug to get the actual URL with token.

Once the browser opens the url with token it is generated, but a redirect happens immediately to an url without so it is not possible to copy and paste.

With Firebug with "Net" pane activated it is possible to simply copy the url from header section.