2009/2/4 Christopher Beland <bel...@alum.mit.edu>: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 12:07 +0100, Martin Stolle wrote: >> Why is this a nightmare? This is standard fare for pictures coming >> off the camera. And viewers that disregard the orientation bit should >> be shunned... > > Because users would experience wrongly rotated images without warning, > and many would have no idea why this happens or how to fix it.
Any my point is that user's are already used to it, since most if not all recent digital cameras embed rotation info into the picture. Being able to modify this rotation bit doesn't change the overall experience of the user... > > Do you know of any viewers that actually do disregard orientation > metadata, or is this just theoretical? Because if they are out there, > this problem could be solved by having geeqie rotate the image itself. > Image rotation is by default not lossless and even jpeg-lossless rotation has limitations. While "hard rotating" is an option that we should provide, I don't think it should be the only-option (nor should it be the default). Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
