On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:30 -0400, Nat Friedman wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This weekend on the train I was playing with the accelerometer on my > ThinkPad, and with F-Spot. The result is the attached patch, which > autorotates the displayed picture when you tilt your laptop. > > This is handy if you're showing pictures on your computer and you > encounter a portrait-orientation photo amidst many landscape photos; > simply tilt the computer and the picture tilts with it, using the entire > available screen space. It's a great demo, too :-). > > After building with this patch, on OpenSUSE simply run > > # modprobe hdaps > > And then launch f-spot. It should work from the regular image view or > the full-screen view. > > Known issues: > > - The rotate is a bit slow and weird. I'm not sure why. I'm hoping > someone else on this list will figure this out. >
I have a fix for the thumbnail issue in my tree. The speed thing I haven't had time to track down completely, I know at least one thing that could be a problem and also suspect that we may be causing some extraneous notification that needs to be short circuited. As soon as I have a few free minutes I'll look into it again. > - The hdaps driver doesn't work on all ThinkPads, it seems. Not sure > what the supported list is like. > > Thanks to Larry who explained how to do some of this on the cell phone > from the train :-). Here at Novell we're known for our excellent support. --Larry _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
