Re: thumbnailing problems - exif orientation

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:16 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Users are starting to notice ugly thumbnailing problems because Nautilus 
> ignores the exif orientation tag in jpeg files, whereas modern viewers 
> like gThumb and eog respect the orientation tag - but they also share 
> thumbnails with Nautilus.
> 
> Which means that thumbnails are sometimes right, sometimes wrong, 
> depending which application generated them. To the user, it seems random.
> 
> So... can I gently prod the Nautilus crew into fixing this? libexif has 
> "issues", I agree, so maybe a mini-parser can be written to just read 
> the exif orientation tag.
> 

Nautilus just uses gnome_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail() from
libgnomeui. It seems like a good idea if someone added exif support to
it.

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