Re: EOG features

["Vincent Untz" <vuntz gnome org>]

On Thu, December 1, 2005 12:18, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:08 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
>
>> > My plan is: 1) add an "Open With" "File" menu item to make it easy to
>> > access an image editor; 2) replace "Save"  and "Save as" menu items
>> > with a "Save  copy" one, like Evince; 3) auto-rotate images based on
>> > EXIF data.
>>
>> Auto-rotation sounds like another good reason to support re-saving
>> the original image... if EOG is going to do some sort of useful
>> 'editing' for me, it seems a shame to spoil it by then having to give
>> the corrected image a different name.  I'd vote for just giving the
>> user the option of Save and Save As, like any other document-based app.
>
> I think auto-rotation makes much more sense if rotation is a "view"
> function rather than an editing function. If you open a file with
> orientation information I'm not sure physically rotating it and changing
> back the orientation metadata is right. It seems to be a loss of
> information to me. (Not even mentioning the great care you have to take
> to rotate jpegs losslessly.)
>
> I would personally prefer a quick image viewer to not support editing
> (and thus save, except "save a copy"), and implement rotation as a view
> function, with auto-rotation bases on the file metadata. It could even
> reuse the rotation you used last time (saved on a per-file basis). I
> think it makes the "viewer" aspect of EOG more clear, especially in
> relation to "editor" apps, and a consistent standpoint here will
> generally guide you to good UI decisions.

Amen.
Thanks Alex for saying what I was wanting to say: I have more time for
procrastination :-)

Vincent

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