Shotwell Viewer can't open files without file ending

[Thibaut Brandscheid]

Ubuntu: Oneiric 64-Bit up-to-date
Unity: 3D
Shotwell: 0.11.2

What you expected to happen:
When double clicking a file that has no file ending with Shotwell Viewer it should detect the image type and open it accordingly.

What happened instead:
"Shotwell does not support the file format of /home/[USER]/Pictures/testImage."

'file testImage' in terminal:
testImage: PNG image data, 256 x 256, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

We have a ticket for this upstream at

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3469

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

This continues being an issue in Quantal.

[Seria (andreas-boettger)]

Same here. Works with suffix, but not without. That's very annoying.

% apt-cache policy shotwell
shotwell:
  Installed: 0.22.0-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.22.0-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.22.0-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Loren Dias (lorendias)]

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3469 is Error 404.

For me this is a very big problem.

When I import photos from Google Drive they often don't have a file extension but the unique file string as the name.

I have potentially deleted hundreds of thousands of photos I thought successfully imported.

At the very least, it should notify you of XXX photos or other files without extensions were not imported.