Re: EOG features

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

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.

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