It's been 5 years and still no sign of this bug being fixed. The eog project looks nearly dead. feh doesn't have this bug, is more featureful and runs much much faster than eog. $ apt-get install feh $ mv image.jpg image.gif $ feh -dZF image.gif
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172416 Title: eog determines image type from filename Status in Eye of GNOME: Confirmed Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: eog take any image file, e.g. of type image/jpeg, name it 'image.gif' or 'image.tif' -- eog will assume that image type is gif or tiff. then it will complain, that image is not gif/tiff. but correct behavior is possible: name file 'image' and open it -- eog will determine correct image type. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Nov 27 23:28:28 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/eog NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: eog 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcCmdline: eog file:///home/dmig/Amiga%20Collection/PHOTO/A4000T/a4000t_1.gif ProcCwd: /home/dmig ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: eog Uname: Linux dmig-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/172416/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
