Re: what happens when I rotate a photo ?

[Lorenzo Milesi <lorenzo milesi yetopen it>]

Il giorno mar, 22/07/2008 alle 18.15 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy ha
scritto:
> I'm wondering what happens when I rotate a photo (using [ keyboard
> shortcut). Does F-spot
>  - rotate the image data in the file,
>  - or change some metadata in the file,
>  - or change some metada in its own database ?

the second one. f-spot just changes the exif byte of the picture.

> By the way, I tend to think that F-spot should never alter a file
> without being explicitly told so (or by creating a new version).
> A great advantage is that it makes the check for dupe files between
> F-Spot and my CD-ROM easy as the files are always the same.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301819
there's a request for that

> Does F-Spot ever alter the files ? If not, I think this "policy" is a
> feature, and it would be great to advertise it.

f-spot already alters the file on import, updating some exif fields
(date/time, import program, and others). 
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