Re: Strangeness or Expected Behavior

[Laurence Hygate <loz flower powernet co uk>]

It sets an entry in the EXIF data, contained in the jpg saying which
orientation the photo should use. 

I'm guessing that nautilus doesn't (yet?) use it.

cheers

Loz

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 21:11 -0600, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
>I just installed f-spot-0.0.9 from ubuntu/hoary.
>
>Imported a folder with ~20 or so *.jpg images, some of which where
>"sideways."  I used the rotate image function to turn an image
>right-side-up.
>
>Closed f-spot.
>
>Opened the imported dir in nautilus-2.9.91, noticed that the image
>thumbnail is still "sideways."  I figure the thumbnail needs to be
>refreshed so I move all the files into another dir.  Open other dir,
>nautilus renders the thumbnails and the image is still sideways. Hmm,
>this is strange.  So I open the file with gqview, gthumb, and gimp.  All
>show it "sideways."
>
>Ok, so I figure f-spot doesn't really rotate the image, it just keeps a
>setting somewhere that tells it to render the image as rotated.
>
>To test my theory, I delete the dir ~/.gnome2/f-spot/
>
>I start f-spot and notice that no images are displayed as expected.  I
>import the original dir and lo and behold the image is not sideways but
>right side up as I had changed it before in f-spot.  This leaves me
>scratching my head.
>
>What does f-spot actually do when rotating an image?  does it change the
>image or simple make a note in some other config file I am overlooking?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
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Laurence Hygate <loz flower powernet co uk>