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