[Digikam-devel] [Bug 305961] Changing EXIF auto-rotation method

Riku Voipio nchip at kos.to
Wed Aug 29 08:37:34 BST 2012


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305961

Riku Voipio <nchip at kos.to> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Riku Voipio <nchip at kos.to> ---
The original message doesn't explain why this change is needed. I guess the
idea is to make image download faster by not doing autorotation during
download, so user can remove SD card faster?

I don't think adding a popup is a good idea. 

1) It would mean one extra click every time downloading pictures. 
- A good user interface minimizes the amount of clicks for the most common
tasks. Downloading pictures is one the most common (if not most common) task in
digikam.
2) popup's should not be part of usual workflow, they should be reserved for
exceptional events
- We are inflating the alert value If we show popups all the time. Users start
just ignoring them and press OK all the time. Then when a really important
popup happens, they will click OK before even reading what it was about...

Instead, I suggest putting a checkbox "autorotate images" into the "download
images" dialog, selected by default. This way most users (who want autorotate)
don't need extra clicks, and users who don't want autorotation can easily do
that too (and no new popups!).

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