Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 04:03:51 +, Karl Günter Wünsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you suggest that the GIMP is changing the orientation tag when it is loading the image. This is mandatory according to the EXIF specification. A program that supports EXIF and wants to display the image

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is mandatory according to the EXIF specification. Just as a side note: it's Exif, not EXIF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format Not really important for the discussion, but I do suggest that we do it right from the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-09 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Friday 09 November 2007, Raphaël Quinet wrote: No, that's wrong. And that's one of the reasons why I want to remove this confusing question. The EXIF standard defines precisely the list of tags that must be updated and the list of tags that must be copied unchanged. Unfortunately, older

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-08 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Raphaël Quinet wrote: The problem is that the question is not interpreted correctly by most users, as can be seen by the other replies mentioning camera sensors that sometimes report the wrong orientation. It does NOT mean: allow me to decide if each image should

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:55 +0100, Raphaël Quinet wrote: * jpeg plug-in + remove the prompt for EXIF orientation: it should always be done IMO the current solution of asking and allowing the user to skip this question is preferred. It requires a user decision once, but at least it

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-04 Thread jernej
On Sunday, November 4, 2007, 11:09:22, Sven Neumann wrote: The only problem is that it is rather difficult to discover how to change that decision later. Currently you need to edit parasiterc. We might want to find a solution for these Don't ask me again questions that can be used from all

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-04 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann writes: On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:55 +0100, Raphaël Quinet wrote: * jpeg plug-in + remove the prompt for EXIF orientation: it should always be done IMO the current solution of asking and allowing the user to skip this question is preferred. It requires a user decision

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-03 Thread Guillermo Espertino
Currently, GIMP tries to do a bit of both in the same jpeg plug-in and does not do either of them correctly: Raphael: These subjects were discussed before in the list when I ranted about almost the same. Since that some changes were made in the jpeg plug-in for GIMP 2.4.0 and imo they covered

[Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-02 Thread Raphaël Quinet
Here is my contribution to the GIMP 2.6 roadmap: a description of the remaining tasks related to the metadata viewer/editor and some enhancements for the jpeg plug-in (and other plug-ins). In the following list, the tasks marked with a + are the ones that I would like to include in 2.6, while the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-02 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Friday 02 November 2007, Raphaël Quinet wrote: There are also some improvements for the JPEG plug-in. As I mentioned some time ago, I would like to hide the current quality slider among the advanced options, and replace it by a smaller selection of pre-defined quality levels. Sorry to

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-02 Thread gg
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:06:18 +0100, Karl Günter Wünsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 November 2007, Raphaël Quinet wrote: There are also some improvements for the JPEG plug-in. As I mentioned some time ago, I would like to hide the current quality slider among the advanced options,

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-02 Thread William Skaggs
From: Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] + remove the prompt for EXIF orientation: it should always be done I agree with this idea now. The problem I had with it before is that it would do bad things to people whose EXIF images had incorrect rotation information, and that would have

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-02 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:06:18 +0100, Karl Günter Wünsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 November 2007, Raphaël Quinet wrote: There are also some improvements for the JPEG plug-in. As I mentioned some time ago, I would like to hide the current quality slider among the advanced options,