GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331663
Incorect messages in statusbar in the "Import Photos" dialog
Last modified: 2006-10-19 20:11:26 UTC
Please describe the problem: When importing photos from a digital camera, the status bar always shows "Downloading SOMETHING from SOMEWHERE" even if the operation in progress is "Deleting" or "Rotating" "SOMETHING from SOMEWHERE". Only tested with my USB PTP digital camera, but may happen to all imports. Steps to reproduce: 1. Plug an USB PTP camera and choose File/Import Photos. 2. Select "Delete imported images from the camera" 3. Click "Import" button Actual results: The photos are imported and deleted from camera, but the status bar in the dialog is wrongly showing only "Downloading SOMETHING from SOMEWHERE" Expected results: The status bar should correctly display the actual operation like: "Downloading SOMETHING from SOMEWHERE" "Deleting SOMETHING from SOMEWHERE" "Rotating SOMETHING" Does this happen every time? yes Other information: It would be nice to also have a checkbox for "Automaticaly rotate photos" in the import dialog. Right now, it is automatically rotating them according to the EXIF info. While this is OK for most situations, some times one might want it disabled, for instance when you just downloaded 4G of pictures off your camera, you already spent a long time waiting for download, and don't want to wait for rotating 4G pictures. Maybe I should open a feature request for this.
There is a key in gconf registry to disable "automatic rotation" /schemas/apps/gthumb/dialogs/photo_importer/adjust_orientation
Regarding your two points: 1) Status messages - the displayed status messages are provided by libgphoto, which for some reason provides status messages for imports but not deletes. I have filed a bug report with libgphoto at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1580503&group_id=8874&atid=108874. 2) The version in CVS HEAD (2.9.0 and later) has a "Rotate Images Physically" checkbox in the import dialog. If it is enabled, the images are physically transformed and the exif orientation tag is reset to top-left. Otherwise, the images are imported with no changes.
Status messages for deletes have been added to libgphoto SVN trunk by its developers (wow, same day service!). This functionality should automagically appear in gthumb once you have a future release of libgphoto installed. I'm closing this bug as "Fixed". - Mike