Re: [gthumb-list] Some questions about rotation and comments

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 07/04/2012 11:05, Chris Green ha scritto:
> I'm using gthumb 2.13.1 on an xubuntu 11.10 system, I used to use
> digikam but it was overkill for my needs really (and pulls in all those
> KDE libraries).
>
> First question:-
>
>      The thumbnails are often not oriented correctly but the full sized
>      images are correct.  These are (I guess) images which have been
>      rotated in the past using digikam.  In fact it's odder than that, if
>      I select one of the incorrectly oriented thumbnails and rotate it
>      then it ends up rotating too far, i.e. it seems to suddenly 'see'
>      the correct orientation it really had originally (put there by
>      digikam) and then rotates it a further 90 degrees so I then have to
>      rotate it back again!
>
>      Is there any automated way I can get the thumbnails to be oriented
>      correctly?

version 2.13.1 is an old development version, try to build the source or 
find a package of version 2.14.0 or greater.

> Second question:-
>
>      I have lots of IPTC and EXIF information embedded into the image
>      files by digikam.  Is there any way I can get gthumb to display
>      this with the images (I can see it in the Properties window in the
>      sidebar of course).

You can select the metadata to display in the thumbnail list from the 
preferences dialog, 'browser' tag.  Note that displaying EXIF metadata 
will slow down the file listing because every single image will be 
opened in order to read the embedded metadata.  There was a plan to make 
a cache of the embedded metadata but it hasn't been implemented yet.

- Paolo