Re: Loading images with bad extensions

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org>]

Hi Jerome,

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 10:19 +0200, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> Attached is an ico image with a .png extension that will not be read
> by eog until it's renamed to foo.ico. I suspect eog uses the MIME type
> to determine the file type. I also suspect this subject has been
> brought up a few times already, since it's an old and very easily
> reproducible bug.
> 
> Point being, it seems that, for example, Nautilus' thumbnail
> generation doesn't care about the MIME type and will generate a
> correct thumbnail on such an image. I unfortunately am only a Python
> developer, but it's worth having a look at.
> 
> Eye of Gnome is widely used. What are the chances of such a fix making
> the 2.26 release? How large would the changes be?

This is a known issue. Please see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490067 for details.

Claudio