Re: Whats coming in GTK+ 2.12

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I thought it might be a good idea to anticipate the release announcement for
> GTK+ 2.12 by writing a series of mails about some of the new features that will
> appear in the next stable release. I hope that this inspires some
> people to play
> with the new stuff, so that we can
>
> - find api holes and problems before they get frozen in the stable release

Matthias,

I'd like to:

1) Mention that the tiff and jpeg loaders in 2.12 gdk-pixbuf now set the 
"orientation" option associated with the pixbuf based on the embedded 
tiff/exif orientation tag, so that client programs can orient the image 
correctly.

2) Plead for review of the related patches in these bugs:

439567 – Add functions to transform pixbufs based on orientation tags
440978 – respect orientation tag when generating thumbnails

so that the next versions of gnome/nautilus/gtk/gthumb all agree on how 
to orient thumbnails. It's a conflicting mess right now.

- Mike