Hi,
I use gwenview-4.6.5-4.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64, from the Mandriva rpm, atm, and have been enjoying its functions for a long time, tyvm.
However, I am accustomed to viewing images without the exif rotation being applied. I've been switching my daily-use distro and what I use is Mandriva Linux release 2011.0 (Official) for x86_64. So, where I have always seen gwenview display images w/o auto-rotation, for some reason, it is now being applied. This is important to me when I want to use the images in applications that do not rotate automatically or some other reason and I want to rotate manually, to view how the image displays w/o auto-rotation. Now, I can see 'Auto-rotate/Flip Using EXIF Information' in Plugins > Images but don't see a way to turn this behavior off. Konqueror is my file browser.

Following an old google result, I added [misc] autoRotateImages=false to the bottom of .kde4/share/config/gwenviewrc, closed/opened gwenview, but no change, logged out/in, but no change.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119653

Thanks,
Rolf

p.s.

[rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep gwenview <- what's installed with 'gwenview' in the name
lib64gwenviewlib4-4.6.5-4.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64
gwenview-4.6.5-4.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64
[rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmq -y gwenview <- what's in configured repositories with 'gwenview' in the name
gwenview
lib64gwenviewlib4
libgwenviewlib4
[rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep kipi <- ibid.
lib64kipiplugins1-1.9.0-3-mdv2011.0.x86_64
kipi-plugins-1.9.0-3-mdv2011.0.x86_64
lib64kipi8-4.6.5-4.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64
kipi-common-4.6.5-4.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64
[rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmq -y kipi <- ibid.
kipi-common
kipi-plugins
kipi-plugins-devel
lib64kipi7
lib64kipi8
lib64kipiplugins1
libkipi7
libkipi8
libkipiplugins1

Do other KDE applications which display your images also follow the EXIF auto rotation metadata? I suspect this could be a behaviour change within Qt.

I tried a test with one photo taken sideways with results as follow:

Apps that auto-rotate:

gwenview
Image Viewer (Gpicview)
Shotwell viewer
embedded image viewer (gvpart)

Apps that leave it alone:

okular
fotoxx
gimp
kolour paint
embedded khtmlimage
embedded okular (okularkimgio)

Thanks.

I suspect this may be a Gwenview specific behaviour then. Unfortunately there does not appear to be much you can do about it at this stage. Please be aware though that automatic rotation is expected behaviour in most instances though.

The only way to implement this behaviour at this point would be to request a feature allowing for automatic image rotation based on EXIF metadata to be disabled.