Rotation confusion for HQ exported files

["Ed Schofield" <edschofield gmail com>]

Hi all,

I've just noticed that the File | Export to Folder command (which produces beautiful galleries, by the way) didn't preserve my rotation settings for the high-quality versions of my photos. The thumbnail and medium-quality files are rotated fine. I'm using F-Spot 
0.2.1.

I've gone back and tried to reproduce this behaviour. I hadn't noticed the 'Autorotate' check box before; this seems to have an effect _only_ on the high-quality versions of exported files, and _only_ when these are exported as their original size. (Resizing them seems to rotate them like the thumbnails and mq files, irrespective of the setting of 'Autorotate').

I'd like to suggest the following new behaviour:
- Remove the 'Autorotate' checkbox. This is, IMHO, confusing.
- Rotate hq files like mq files and thumbnails, irrespective of whether they are resized.

Or, if we really want the _deselection_ of 'Autorotate' to function as it does now, preserving the original file's rotation in the hq exported version, only when not resized, this option should be renamed to 'Preserve original orientation in high-quality version' to reflect this, and should be disabled (greyed out) whenever resizing is selected. But there would still be the inconsistency between the hq version being a different orientation to the mq and thumbnail versions. I'd argue for just scrapping the Autorotate option.

If this issue has already been addressed in F-Spot 0.3.0, sorry for the noise!

-- Ed