Files ending with jpg must be renamed jpeg to open
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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f-spot (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug has been reported before (as a Nautilus-related bug), but was rejected because it was not related directly to Nautilus. The issue is still unresolved it seems, because I had to manually edit ~/.local/
http://
in order to open images in Nautilus the normal way. This is an unnecessary annoyance especially for new users, because usually digital camera software saves images with "jpg" or "JPG" suffix, not the "jpeg" suffix as demanded by the ~/.local/
What happens is when I double click an image named picture.jpg an error message pops up saying this file can be harmful etc, and that you should rename it to jpeg. This is a bad approach. A file named jpeg is not any less harmful than a file named jpg. Let's sort this out.
Not being able to view your images for the main file browser (Nautilus) is a very serious bug, and should be treated as such. Imagine a user just installed Ubuntu and has little or no skills in configuring even the simplest things. He plugs his digital camera into the USB port to test if Ubuntu can do what Windows can. But when he tries to view the pictures Ubuntu (as he would see it) fails! Although this isn't really Ubuntu or Nautilus bug it certainly will put the user off Ubuntu - "What? It can't even open images? Well, back to windows it is..."
Changed in f-spot: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
I see what you mean. There have been quite a few reports of this on the forums, as well as bugs like #42992 and #37547
Some people are reporting that this happens after installing f-spot. Do you have f-spot installed?