Re: EOG features

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Calum Benson wrote:

>
> 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.

Rotating jpegs is lossless.  And that's a good reason to autosave
on rotation :)

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