D17245: Add string formatting function to property info

[Alexander Stippich]

astippich added inline comments.

INLINE COMMENTS

> bruns wrote in formatstrings.cpp:83
> Of course I can look this up. But this information is not available when the user looks at the string.
> 
> Probably we should ask what is the target audience here? The average user only wants the image to be displayed correctly, i.e. apply the transform and be done with it. This IMHO also implies never showing this value by default.
> 
> For power users, it may be better to also show the numerical value, so they can look up whats meant.
> 
> Otherwise, it is not only necessary to mention CW or CCW, but also if this is the transform which has been applied to the image, or the inverse transform required to show the image correctly.

How about using the descriptions from D15503 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15503>, which are also consistent with digiKam and Gwenview? The best solution is probably to make D15503 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D15503> work, but this is out of scope for this revision. And a text is still better than a plain number.

REPOSITORY
  R286 KFileMetaData

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D17245

To: astippich, broulik, bruns, mgallien
Cc: ngraham, kde-frameworks-devel, #baloo, ashaposhnikov, michaelh, astippich, spoorun, bruns, abrahams
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