Dne středa 04 únor 2009 Greg Troxel napsal(a): > Vladimir Nadvornik <[email protected]> writes: > > 1. edit/Adjust functions which rotate the image only on the screen + > > external programs (exiftran) that rotate the image file permanently > > - that is how it worked until now > > > > 2. edit/Adjust will update the metadata (either directly Exif in the > > image or the metadata in ~/.geeqie/ if the image file is not writable) + > > one external program that transforms the image according to orientation > > stored in the metadata (exiftran -a) > > 3. Add a sidecar file (I don't grok the sidecar notion, but this seems > to be what it's for) next to the image. exiftran -a can merge in the > sidecar and then remove the sidecar.
This corresponds to option 2 with a special configuration of metadata writting. It should be possible to configure it in alpha3. There is only one problem that a sidecar for jpeg files is not allowed by the XMP specification and thus no other software will be able to use it. OTOH writting metadata to jpeg files should be IMHO considered safe. > > Rationale: > > a. geeqie should not (by default, or maybe we should a global mode since > obviously there are differing opinions on this) write metadata from one > filesystem into another. I am still not sure that this is a problem ;) But maybe the XDG paths could solve it. > > b. By default, image files should not be modifed. I view rotation as a > permanent annotation. I agree for RAW files. > > With the above, I would like a way to make [ and ] just write the > sidecar file when used. 98% of the time I rotate images because of a > camera without an orientation sensors, 1.9% because the sensor didn't > match my judgement for diagonal or up/down shots, and 0.1% because I'm > curious (abstract). I would agree with the percentage, therefore I think that the orientation changes should be saved in the metadata, without additional confirmation, just using the same process as for keywords and comment (see the other mail). > So for me, I generally would like this to be > persistent within geeqie, and have a way to modify the image file, but > don't want writes to my image files unless I specifically ask for it. Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
