Automatical rotation of the pictures doesn't work right.

[Radim]

Binary package hint: gthumb

gThumb 2.9.3

Rotation works only for Thumbnails but not for full screen. It works in Edgy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 25 09:51:32 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gthumb
Package: gthumb 3:2.9.3-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gthumb
ProcCwd: /home/simanek
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gthumb
Uname: Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[mjc (mjc-avtechpulse)]

It works for me.

Can you clarify the problem? How can it be reproduced? Are you using the "[" and "]" keys?

- Mike

[Bob Smith (ubuntu-mensetmanus)]

I observed possibly related problems while using gthumb, nautilus and/or F-spot.
gthumb 2.10.2
Nautilus 2.18.1
Eye of GNOME 2.18.1
F-spot 0.3.5
Usually up to date 7.04 beta.

Problem: Nautilus/EOG particularly, and also gthumb "loses" proper rotation/orientation of thumbnails or large view. More often with thumbnails in Nautilus, but sometimes with large view in gthumb.

I had not been using [ ] keys, until recently (after reading above). One observation: sometimes thumbnails appear mis-rotated in gthumb, but using ] rotates it 180 degrees, so then using [ makes orientation appear correct.

I think problems always involve photos with long side vertical (ie camera was rotated to take them).

It seemed that viewing a folder of thumbnails with gthumb and correcting mis-rotations would also correct thumbnails in Nautilus, but EOG large views seem to "stick" to wrong orientations.

I have done things like copied or moved pictures around, from folder to folder, and imported to hdd with gthumb, then from hdd to F-spot, but haven't yet found a repeatable pattern, sorry.

FWIW, I've also noticed gthumb slide view menu, Image, Transform, rotate etc are "dim" and do not function, even though [] and larger Rotate Images pull-down menu do work.

- Bob

[mjc (mjc-avtechpulse)]

Bob,

gThumb generates thumbnails correctly, Nautilus does not. Nautilus ignores the exif orientation tag when generating thumbnails.

gThumb uses Nautilus-generated thumbnails if they are present.

If gThumb was the first program to generate the thumbnail, it will be correct.

If Nautilus generated the thumbnail, it may be wrong. Try to avoid using Nautilus when viewing new photos.

Upstream bugs:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428725
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335053

- Mike

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for the pointers, Michael.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed upstream.

[mjc (mjc-avtechpulse)]

Clarification: no, it's not fixed upstream, yet.

gtk+ has been partially patched (upstream 428725). A follow-up gtk+ patch is pending at upstream bug 439567. Then Nautilus will have to be patched; no upstream bug exists for that yet (it will once 439567 is resolved).

- Mike