Re: gthumb on FC6 not seeing jpeg files

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On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 09:21 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote:
> Tom Freeman wrote:
> >
> > I'm baffled on how to trouble shoot this one. I have a machine running 
> > FC6 with the 2.6.18-1.2798 kernel and gthumb-2.7.8-3. When called from 
> > the command line as a viewer, gthumb will happily display my jpeg 
> > files. However, used as a browser like I usually use gthumb, no jpeg 
> > files are found, although gif files are. I'm not finding any error 
> > messages either in the log files, nor when running gthumb from the 
> > command line. Turning selinux on or off doesn't seem to matter. 
> > Nautilus does see the files.
> >
> > Any ideas on what is going on here? I've got a new granddaughter who 
> > lives out of state, so pictures are the only contact at the moment.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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> Just for grins and giggles, rename one of the files from <file>.jpeg to 
> <file>.jpg and then check if gthumb sees it.
> 
> gthumb seems to have  problems with the 4 letter extension.  This is a bug.
> 
> I think that the author of gthumb might have gone to file extension 
> definitions instead of the more reliable 'file type' tests.

Some apps will also uppercase the extension: .JPG instead of .jpg. You
might check for that as well. Ric


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