Re: rotated photos aren't saved

[John Russell <jjrussell gmail com>]

On 12/3/05, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:56 -0500, John Russell wrote:
> > Would there be any problem with having the same modified behavior
> > rotated pictues as Processed ones?  Thanks.
>
> This bug is already in bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301819
>
> I can see that with the way F-Spot stores multiple versions (by just
> storing copies of the entire file) having it save rotated photos as new
> versions could take up a lot of space on peoples' machines who wouldn't
> really want that to happen.  Perhaps it could be a preference?
>
> Peace,
>
> Gabriel Burt
>
>

After Larry explained to me that rotated pictures have their EXIF
header updated with the appropriate rotation i think that f-spot does
it exactly right.  Now that I have flickr configured to obey the EXIF
rotation direction everything works great.  If anything gthumb and eog
need to be fixed to do the same now IMHO.