Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 07:47:10 -0800 From: "William Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Robert Krawitz wrote: > 4) When the exif specifies that an image is rotated, the plug-in > pops up a query asking the user whether to rotate it into > standard alignment. I thought it was better to ask rather than > do it automatically, because there are probably a substantial > number of existing images that have been edited without having > their exif information properly updated (for example, by earlier > versions of GIMP). When an image is saved with exif, the > orientation is set to "top-left", as the exif specifications > require. (See bug #121810) > > I'd suggest making this a preference. If someone's careful about > maintaining their images (or hasn't edited them before), they'll get > very annoyed by having to answer this question every time they open an > EXIF file that's rotated. Wouldn't earlier versions of the GIMP have > destroyed the EXIF data? That would be a reasonable thing to do: "Rotate images if exif says so?: _Always _Never _Ask each time." But we have a high threshold nowadays for adding new preferences, so this is something that probably won't happen until it's clear that a lot of people want it. Something that forces me to do an extra gratuitous step for loading every portrait I ever shoot is a massive pain in the butt however you slice it. Another way of handling this would be to show the message, but have a check box "Don't show this message again". Firefox has this for a lot of the security warnings (like warning you if you fill in a form that's posted over the net). -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
