Re: EOG features

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 30 Nov 2005, at 21:40, Lucas Rocha wrote:

> I'm having a little dilema about EOG redesign: should EOG be able to
> save image changes (rotation) to disk? I tend to say "no" because,
> actually, EOG is an image VIEWER (there is GIMP for image editing).

I think the question here is whether you consider rotation a viewing  
or editing function.  I'd say it's certainly as much of one as the  
other, so I think it's fine to be able to rotate images in EOG, and  
to save the rotated image with the original filename-- provided you  
don't just save the image automatically when the user rotates it, as  
rotation is often lossy, and you don't want to be losing the user's  
data behind their backs.

> 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.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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