Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:32:15 -0800 From: "William Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Raphael, glad to hear from you. > Although I am a bit late to the party, here are my 2 cents: I > think that the jpeg plug-in should automatically rotate the image > when opening it without marking it as "dirty". The default > setting should be to do that automatically without asking, both > for interactive and non-interactive mode. Let me try to explain > why... In an ideal world I agree that this would be the right answer. What concerns me is that in this less-than-ideal world, many people are likely to have images with incorrect exif data, including anybody who edited a rotated exif jpeg in GIMP 2.0 or 2.2 and then resaved it as jpeg. It's hard to get a fix on how large a population this is, but I bet if we impose a solution on them that rotates their images without giving them any way to prevent it, we'll be subjecting ourselves to some angry bug reports. Won't they have (already be having) exactly the same problem with any other EXIF-aware viewer or editor? Raphael's proposal sounds right on the money to me. -- 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
