On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > When I find photos with wrong orientation it's convenient not having to > > open GIMP just to rotate it. > > easy for someone who doesn't know gimp to rotate the image (and even if > > you do know gimp, it still takes some time starting up, and so on). I obligatory advice, you can sometimes make a significant difference to startup time if you use: gimp --no-data > > don't see why it should be removed when it's there, not taking up much > > space and being very convenient. > Yes, rotation (-90, +90) is everybody's unique most frequently > used feature of image editing. with the better support now for built in EXIF orientation information there might be a little less manual rotation needed but I expect it will still be a frequently used feature. > It's got all other manipulations that I need when managing my > photos: Enhance and Crop. no "lossless"* jpeg crop unfortunately! > Now eog has the rotate buttons on the toolbar (the rotate-left, > rotate-right buttons themselves, not a button to bring up the > why not merge EOG with evince then? You might want to ask the Evince developers what they think about the notion of Evince being a "universal viewer", the idea seems to be recurring at the moment. last time I asked they said they were busily concentrating on making a really good PDF viewer. [I hope this comes across politely, I've tried rephrasing it but it does not seem quite right] If you are determined to try using Evince instead of EoG (thanks to the magic of gdkpixbuf) you can already view the major image types in Evince but it isn't exactly what I'd call the most elegant solution, not as nice as using an application designed as an image viewer. (have hammer, looks like a nail...) I happen to think there will always be room for a fast light image viewer and Eye of Gnome certainly fits the bill. > (unfortunately) I have to use gthumb to be efficient. Any way to > redunce the redundancy of having both EOG and gthumb is > appreciated. :) If anything I think gthumb is at greater risk of being squeezed into a very small niche and face a lot of competition from the likes of f-spot. (The poor use of available screen space in gthumb heavily discourages me from wanting to use it. Also there is no easy way to compare two images side by side which I occasionally want to do, it is very much about only one image at a time.) Sincerely Alan Horkan Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ * pedantry: lossless as in no extra reencoding, crop is obviously lossey in the literal sense of cutting away the edges _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
