Re: new rotate wish

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:50, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> - if you're not a knowlegeable user; you edit files by
> choosing to edit them in GIMP, via a menu from gqview.

And then say "This sucks, I could rotate pictures with one click 
in ACDsee/Thumbsplus/whatever.  This takes forever, loading this 
'gimp' every time.  Give me back my Windows."

I know, because I'm the one they say it to.  But I guess no one 
says gqview has to be what I give former Windows users by 
default; shame it's the best there is in terms of speed.  (The 
only other issues I've come across have been the corrupted 
display of bmp files, seemingly a gdk thing, and the "can't 
browse files while extending a selection" thing, which I fixed 
with that patch I wrote against 0.9x that never got accepted.)

Further, this particular option, usually implemented as a 
lossless JPEG rotate in Windows image managers, is not actually 
available in any Linux image editor I'm aware of: you have to go 
through a recompression step just to rotate your image if the 
user is to do things the (current) "Unix way".

I know, I know, this is Unix software, not Windows software.  
It's just that most of the people who aren't just typing "display 
imagename" in the first place are not anoraks and expect a 
better user experience than that.  Maybe it's time to finally 
roll my own now that pixieplus is no more...

> My fundamental philosophy of life is to give people the
> freedom to be strong (whether they choose to do so or not is
> their buisness; that's freedom), rather than try to drag
> everyone down to the same level of weakness. I believe that in
> the end, everyone will be happier this way.

I believe that anyone who really objects to a "Rotate" menu item 
being present because it diminishes the purity of the unix 
experience is probably also enough of a nerd to know how to 
patch it out of his copy of gqview. ;)

Rob



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