Re: EOG features

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Lucas Rocha wrote:
> with a "Save  copy" one, like Evince; 3) auto-rotate images based on
> EXIF data.

Very few cameras seem to have the mercury sensor needed to make the tag 
required here. Apart from the D-SLRs I've never encountered one.

I also want to raise a few issues, in advance. Lots of programs simply 
get this rotating wrong.

gThumb rotates the image and the tag after that. For programs that 
handle viewing correctly, it puts it an extra 90-degrees too far. My 
patch for that (hint, hint!):

	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318828

f-spot does this right, though it also updates the DateTime field in the 
exif tags. Larry's convinced me that that is the correct way to do it, 
and EoG should probably do the same. However, I'm working on a trivial 
patch to the Nautilus image properties tab, which uses DateTime instead 
of DateTimeOriginal (if available) as the original Date. On images 
rotated with f-spot, the date Nautilus shows becomes the rotatation date.

Just my 0.02 zł on an pet peave.

--Pat