[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34367: Image Editing: Orientation-aware rotation icons

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#34367: Image Editing: Orientation-aware rotation icons
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media             |    Version:
 Severity:  normal            |   Keywords:  needs-patch
  Focuses:  ui                |
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 Having just processed a massive set of images and needing to rotate
 several of them, I noticed a small issue with the way the WordPress image
 editor's rotation icons work. They're generally much better than the
 standard rotation arrows you'd normally see, providing a visual of an
 image being rotated one way or another from portrait to landscape. But if
 you're looking at a landscape image that needs to rotate one way or the
 other, it's somewhat disorienting trying to decide which button to push,
 since you're essentially rotating it one more time past the orientation
 indicated in the icon. By contextually adjusting these icons to reflect
 the orientation of the image in the editor, we could eliminate an extra
 cognitive step during the image editing process (see proposed
 screenshots).

 Probably the easiest way to go about fixing this would be to add a class
 for the image's orientation somewhere in a container div, then add some
 css to rotate these buttons when the image is already landscape, so that
 they indicate that clicking would make them rotate into portrait
 orientation.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/34367>
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