How reliable is it that other applications will correctly interpret the
metadata and orient the image properly?  I think the nightmare would be
if people thought their images were rotated permanently on disk, but
then they got different orientations depending on what non-geeqie image
viewers or editors they used.

If something is labeled "Edit", that sounds permanent, so menu items
that only affect how an image is displayed right now (temporarily)
should use different vocabulary.

-B.

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 09:35 +0100, Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:
> I'd like to hear your opinion on image orientation handling. There are 2 
> possibilities:
> 
> 1. edit/Adjust functions which rotate the image only on the screen +
>    external programs (exiftran) that rotate the image file permanently 
>    - that is how it worked until now
> 
> 2. edit/Adjust will update the metadata (either directly Exif in the image 
>    or the metadata in ~/.geeqie/ if the image file is not writable) +
>    one external program that transforms the image according to orientation
>    stored in the metadata (exiftran -a)


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