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On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 090921 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> >> Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in |
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> >> 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this |
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> >> ? |
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> > it does show little images, |
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> > but you are missing thumbnails which are little images? |
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> The thumbnails are missing for some images, for which thumbnails appear |
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> properly in Gwenview (for) 3.5.10 . I've found the cause: |
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> 'properties' says they are 'jpeg', but that their content is 'gif', |
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> so changing the extension to '.gif' cures the disorder. |
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> I'm not sure this is progress: the Unix way is to use extensions as a |
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> guide, but process files according to their identified content; |
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> Gwenview 4.3.1 seems to be following the M$ approach of obeying extensions. |
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> Anyway, it's solvable with some renaming: more fun with Thunar (grin) ! |
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I would file a bug report with kde. You are right, apps should look for the |
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magic number, not some stupid extension. |
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