On Thu, December 1, 2005 12:18, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:08 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > >> > My plan is: 1) add an "Open With" "File" menu item to make it easy to >> > access an image editor; 2) replace "Save" and "Save as" menu items >> > with a "Save copy" one, like Evince; 3) auto-rotate images based on >> > EXIF data. >> >> Auto-rotation sounds like another good reason to support re-saving >> the original image... if EOG is going to do some sort of useful >> 'editing' for me, it seems a shame to spoil it by then having to give >> the corrected image a different name. I'd vote for just giving the >> user the option of Save and Save As, like any other document-based app. > > I think auto-rotation makes much more sense if rotation is a "view" > function rather than an editing function. If you open a file with > orientation information I'm not sure physically rotating it and changing > back the orientation metadata is right. It seems to be a loss of > information to me. (Not even mentioning the great care you have to take > to rotate jpegs losslessly.) > > I would personally prefer a quick image viewer to not support editing > (and thus save, except "save a copy"), and implement rotation as a view > function, with auto-rotation bases on the file metadata. It could even > reuse the rotation you used last time (saved on a per-file basis). I > think it makes the "viewer" aspect of EOG more clear, especially in > relation to "editor" apps, and a consistent standpoint here will > generally guide you to good UI decisions.
Amen. Thanks Alex for saying what I was wanting to say: I have more time for procrastination :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
