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This is a feature, not a bug. Using the orientation tag is non-destructive. Actually flipping the pixels is not. Apps and sites which ignore the orientation tag are broken and...

In an ideal world sure. Sadly this is not an ideal world. I don't think orientation changes are really "destructive" as it can be reverted quite easily. Launchpad Details: [#LPC](https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-photos/+bug/1371826/comments/2)...

Sadly it is not. In an ideal world, pixels can be flipped non-destructively. In the real world, algorithms to do that may be imperfect. It may look to the human...

This is a long-standing source of confusion with Shotwell. There are numerous issues involved. First, Shotwell uses GDK Pixbuf to perform the rotate/flip operations in memory. Those operations are non-destructive...

Gonna make the call here as I think Jim pointed out the distinction. We want to make sure to be as non-destructive as possible in the library. EXIF rotate makes...

I see the same thing. For example, if I tag an image with the Spanish word for year: año a search for "año" comes up blank. But if I search...