Re: new rotate wish

Well, I understand your fundamental philosophy.
But at this point, I can say:
- why does gqview has rotate and flip anyway ... if it is already coded 
somewhere else
- why does gqview has slideshow ... if a shell script can do this
Anyway, the developer has the power to decide the development way, so 
he's got the final word (or bit).

Roti

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>On 01/06 05:25 , Hrotkó Gábor wrote:
>  
>
>>When I have lots pictures (not just those which have exif data), and the 
>>only work with them is to rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise, it would 
>>be a great thing, to perform the rotation in gqview, and save the the 
>>file in it. It is a littlebit annoying to always invoke gimp or other 
>>stuff to only rotate an image. After rotating, there should be an icon, 
>>saying: "Save" or "Save changes".
>>    
>>
>
>no, please don't. It's a start down a slippery slope of creeping features
>that end up adding complexity and taking time away from Doing One Job Well.
>
>the thing I really *like* about gqview is that it doesn't try to be an image
>editor as well as everything else. it's hard enough to make an
>image-management tool that works really well; when that effort gets diluted
>into a do-everything program, it all comes out worse.
>
>the Unix philosophy is to have a lot of small tools, each of which uses open
>and simple formats, and which can be freely mixed-and-matched to build the
>best combination for the job. 
>
>I'm sure there are a pile of tools out there which try to be an image editor
>as well as an image manager; try one of those instead if that's what you
>want. :)
>
>A more unixlike way of doing what you want; would be to add an option to
>gqview's menus like "run command on selected file(s)". You select a number
>of files you want to operate on; then choose this option, and it gives you a
>command-line dialog where you can invoke ImageMagick (or some other tool to
>operate on images in batch-mode), or a one-line bash or perl script (to
>rename or move files), or whatever you want.
>
>this gives people options:
>- if you're not a knowlegeable user; you edit files by choosing to edit them
>  in GIMP, via a menu from gqview.
>- if you know what you're doing; you can use the command line from gqview to
>  do arbitrary things to arbitrary files (including open them in GIMP, for
>  instance if you want to open several files at once).
>
>user interfaces should offer simple ways to do simple things; but they
>should also offer the flexibility to do powerful things as well, when people
>learn how.
>
>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. 
>
>Carl Soderstrom.
>  
>



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