Users are starting to notice ugly thumbnailing problems because Nautilus ignores the exif orientation tag in jpeg files, whereas modern viewers like gThumb and eog respect the orientation tag - but they also share thumbnails with Nautilus.
Which means that thumbnails are sometimes right, sometimes wrong, depending which application generated them. To the user, it seems random. So... can I gently prod the Nautilus crew into fixing this? libexif has "issues", I agree, so maybe a mini-parser can be written to just read the exif orientation tag. Some relevant bug reports: Bug 428725 – What to do with broken Nautilus thumbnails? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428725 Bug 168231 – want EXIF rotation information via gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168231 Bug 335053 – image thumbnailing to respect rotation EXIF flag http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335053 Bug 421349 – Image orientation wrong in thumbnails http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421349 Automatical rotation of the pictures doesn't work right. http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95807 - Mike -- nautilus-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
