F-Spot slideshow crops photos taken in portrait orientation

[Roger Crayton]

Binary package hint: f-spot

Version 0.4.0 on Gutsy. When running a slideshow that contains photos in portrait mode, the photo is blown up to where it takes the entire width of the screen. The bottom part of the picture is cropped off. It's as if f-spot is using only the width of the picture when calculating the display and ignoring the height. The slideshow feature used to work fine under Feisty and before. In these versions, the picture would be sized as large as it could be while still fitting on the screen in all dimensions.

[Mathijs (mdenburger)]

Confirmed here. Actually, the same happens with photo's in landscape mode: they are blown up to where they take the entire height of the screen, and the right part is cropped off. This is not very noticeable with 'normal' landscape photo's, but with wide photo's (e.g. those created by stitching multiple photo's together) the error becomes obvious.

[Shaun Crampton (fasaxc)]

I can confirm this bug. I'm running a Dell Inspiron 6400.

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Setting as triaged because it's confirmed upstream.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

upstream claims this is fixed in 0.4.2, which is the version in gutsy, so this bug should be Fix Released in Ubuntu now, right?

[Mathijs (mdenburger)]

Nope, 0.4.2 is only used in Hardy. Gutsy still uses 0.4.0, so a backport would be nice.