GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 630308
GNOME-screenshot does not add any EXIF data
Last modified: 2011-09-16 21:51:32 UTC
When GNOME takes a screenshot, it does not add any EXIF data at all. If you then rotate this screenshot in Shotwell and save, it contains only the Exif.Image.Orientation tag and no others: adam@adam-desktop:~/shotwell-0.7$ exiv2 -pa '/home/adam/Desktop/Screenshot.png' Exif.Image.Orientation Short 1 bottom, right Xmp.tiff.ImageWidth XmpText 1 3 adam@adam-desktop:~/shotwell-0.7$ Then, other photo applications including Eye of GNOME and GIMP will not notice the EXIF orientation in this case. Downstream bug report : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/644168
The downstream report concluded this was a Shotwell bug.