Steven W. Orr wrote:
On a Fedora 7 box, I happen to be using alpine to read mail. A message
has a jpg attachment but when I try to view it, gthumb comes up with
no image. The attachment is of type Image/JPEG.
Upon investigating I see that the tmp file that got created by alpine
was something called
/tmp/img-JPE431100
with no file extension.
gthumb will not display an image if the file has no extension. If I
save the file with a .jpg extension then it displays nicely. Yes,
there's a workaround, but you'll admit it's a pain and there's no
chance of being able to teach my wife how to do this.
So who owns the bug? gthumb? alpine? mailcap? fedora?
Is there a different viewer in fedora I can use that won't have this
problem?
I can't tell you why you got a email with an attached file with no
.jpg or other proper indication but for sure your wife and you need a
better email client that doesn't maul the attached files or, a new
friend that sends you proper files.
The gthumb is a wonderful software that reads the file name to learn
how to handle the file. If the file name doesn't include a proper .xyz
gthomb just never is even called.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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