Digikam/Gwenview don't rotate images

Hi,
I have a problem rotating jpg images with the KDE image viewers digikam and gwenview.
Gwenview displays rotated images when I rotate them manually, but if I close and open gwenview they are not rotated.
Also with digikam I cannot rotate images. It displays a message saying the rotation of the image failed. If I start digikam from a console, the error message
"QFile::setFileName: File (/tmp/kde-username/digikamM10192kipiplugin-rotate.JPG) is already opened"
Because the rotation fails with both programs I think the error is in the kipi-plugins somehow. The same error is displayed if I use kipi-plugins 1.1.0 from testing. The rest of the system is up-to-date Arch i686.
Any idea what I can do to solve this problem?

I think there are two problems:
- gwenview and digikam (thumbnail list) unable to rotate JPEGs (it does work with PNGs)
- showfoto crashing when saving images (all formats I tried)
So I created two bug reports upstream: gwenview and digikam/showfoto. The second one has been marked as resolved because I did not provide a GDB backtrace (just KDE's): I will provide the needed backtrace tonight (aproximately 10 hours from now).
Feel free to vote on both of them and/or add whatever relevant information you may have (a 'faster' gdb backtrace for the second one would be of help).
Last edited by TioDuke (2010-02-18 15:25:22)

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