Version: 0.8.0 OS: Linux Gwenview rotates the photos according to their exif information. This is done just for viewing and does not affect the file itself. That's extremely irritating because you think the photo is rotated when it is not! Not only makes it very hard to find the photos that still need to be rotated, it's a huge problem that you cannot see into *which direction* you have to rotate it! That's a severe problem which seriously hinders the workflow and makes working with new photos impossible. Workflow is not to use something like kuickshow to see how the photos actually are rotated, write the names down, then do a batch rotate with imagemagick in console, go back to gwenview - and the photos, now correctly rotated, are shown in wrong direction... Please provide an option to turn automatic image rotation off. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: View photos from camera that stores orientation of photo in exif information Actual Results: gwenview provides false information Expected Results: Show photos as they are: landscape orientation when the photo is in portrait orientation but actually not yet rotated. OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.34-0.slh.2-sidux-686 Compiler: cc KDE Sc 4.4.3
I have it the other way round concerning the thumbnails: my camera does not provide rotation information. After I have rotated all photos with kim servicemenu in dolphin the thumbnails in dolphin show the correct photo orientation - but gwenview does not! Though the photos are now in correct portrait orientation gwenview refuses to show the thumbnail in portrait mode, still uses landscape orientation. Gwenview shouldn't use/try to use exif information to guess about the rotation of a photo, it just should "look at" the actual picture, if it is in landscape or portrait mode. At least there should be an option to turn gwenview "intelligence" off and to show reality. Hasn't there been that option in the past (KDE3 gwenview)?
Dolphin had the same problem and Peter Penz found a workaround (Bug 238618). Is this also applicable to gwenview?
There is a wish 178616, enable/disable auto rotate image, and some one has committed a patch to correct the behaviour, it looks like a duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178616 ***