[Bug 88248] Eye of Gnome can save images with the wrong rotation

[Joseph Garvin]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: eog

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get a jpeg image file that's large enough that EOG isn't going to be able to rotate instantaneously (larger images take more CPU work to rotate). On my XP 3000+ I used a 1920x2560 pixel image. You don't need something that will cause a huge delay, just not instantaneous. A picture taken from even a bad digital camera with highest megapixel setting should work.
2. Open the image in EOG.
3. DOUBLE click the rotate right button.
4. The image in EOG will have only rotated once, despite double clicking. Click save-as and give a name for the new jpg.
5. Open the new jpg in EOG. It will be rotated twice.

Presumably EOG is coded to ignore requests to turn left or right when
already doing a rotate operation, but still sets a variable indicating
the image has been rotated for each click. This is a usability problem
for users who naively double click everything, and an annoyance for
people who double clicked to really rotate the image twice and save the
result but think that hasn't happened yet and rotate it again and get an
upside down jpg :)

** Affects: eog (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Eye of Gnome can save images with the wrong rotation
https://launchpad.net/bugs/88248