GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 329299
automatic Landscape/Portrait constraint while cropping
Last modified: 2006-10-03 16:04:04 UTC
As it is now the crop selection specifies 4 * 3 - Landscape 4 * 6 - Landscape 5 * 7 - Landscape 8 * 10 - Landscape 4 * 3 - Portrait 4 * 6 - Portrait 5 * 7 - Portrait 8 * 10 - Portrait Would it be possible to only have 4 * 3 4 * 6 5 * 7 8 * 10 etc. and then while you are selecting the area to be cropped, you should be able to toggle between Portrait / Landscape mode. Without loosing the size of the rectangle.
instead of being a toggle I'd prefer it if it would just automatically switch if the box you drag is longer in one dimention than the other.
Much better suggestion Larry :)
Picasa works by automatically changing as one side grows longer. However this has some side effects as sometimes you are trying to finely adjust the cropping when it snaps to the other orientation. I think an improvement on that would be to have automatic be default but it was possible to lock to a specific format (or current) as well.
The Picasa way is much more intuitive than having to manually select Portrait/Landscape, regardless of the minor side effect Marcus is mentioning. Is the automatic detection a separate bug report or could this one be morphed to that instead?
I'll update the description.
Created attachment 73935 [details] [review] auto adjustment This patch remove the 'Portrait' cropping options and auto-adapt the crop box depending on the drag movement. It's quite simple, done in C, and should fix this bug.
Committed, thanks Stephane.