On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 18:28 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Calum Benson wrote: > > > > > On 30 Nov 2005, at 21:40, Lucas Rocha wrote: > > > > > I'm having a little dilema about EOG redesign: should EOG be able to > > > save image changes (rotation) to disk? I tend to say "no" because, > > > actually, EOG is an image VIEWER (there is GIMP for image editing). > > > > I think the question here is whether you consider rotation a viewing > > or editing function. I'd say it's certainly as much of one as the > > other, so I think it's fine to be able to rotate images in EOG, and > > to save the rotated image with the original filename-- provided you > > don't just save the image automatically when the user rotates it, as > > rotation is often lossy, and you don't want to be losing the user's > > data behind their backs. > > Rotating jpegs is lossless. And that's a good reason to autosave > on rotation :)
Actually, it can be lossy in some circumstances, see jpegtran's man page which explains it better than I could (but, yes, for most cases, ie. the image from a digital camera, it is lossless). --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
