GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 730942
"Rotate Image?" dialog doesn't offer understandable options
Last modified: 2014-11-28 16:24:18 UTC
Created attachment 277465 [details] screenshot of the problem gimp 2.8.10-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 14.04 1. Open an image containing EXIF rotation data. 2. Try to decide whether to rotate the image. What happens: You aren't given the information necessary to make the decision. What should happen: You are given the information necessary. A dialog appears with a thumbnail and the question: "According to the EXIF data, this image is rotated. Would you like GIMP to rotate it into the standard orientation?" Unfortunately, it doesn't tell you what "EXIF data" is, or what the "standard orientation" means. Most importantly, it doesn't tell you whether the thumbnail represents the image before or after the rotation it is suggesting! One way of fixing this bug would be to redesign the dialog to be dominated by two thumbnails, one before rotation and one after, and let you click on the one you want. Another way would be to not put up the dialog at all, and instead rely on you to use Gimp's normal Rotate function if you need to.
And it spells Exif incorrectly.
Indeed, this should at least be fixed in the new generic rotation dialog that has moved to libgimp in master.
Created attachment 277533 [details] New dialog How is this?
Created attachment 277579 [details] Next version
Fixed in master, won't be merged to 2.8. commit dd6dca24352590377799ad0cd7e17a2a4d9b59c7 Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Date: Fri May 30 20:51:39 2014 +0200 Bug 730942 - "Rotate Image?" dialog doesn't offer understandable options Add a preview of the rotated image and reword all labels. libgimp/gimpmetadata.c | 168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 127 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
To choose the correct button, you still need to learn which thumbnail is the "Original" and which is the "Rotated" -- knowledge which you then won't ever use again. You wouldn't have to do that if the thumbnails themselves were the buttons. But at least now it's *possible* to tell which is the correct choice, so, yay.