artalecs on :
this is a bug. bugs are often present in unstable distributions.
Sunday, November 26. 2006
jpg document vs. JPEG image
Linux sucks on the desktop. I’ll write a rant on this soon.
In Nautilus, suddenly, one day, after a general (apt-get) upgrade, there were no more thumbnails generated for new JPEG images. When I clicked one of the icons, instead of opening the image in the viewer ‘eog’, a message raised, saying
In Nautilus, suddenly, one day, after a general (apt-get) upgrade, there were no more thumbnails generated for new JPEG images. When I clicked one of the icons, instead of opening the image in the viewer ‘eog’, a message raised, saying
The filename “IMG_1234.JPG” indicates that this file is of type “jpg document”. The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type “JPEG image”. If you open this file, the file might present a security risk to your system.followed by the usual security-blah-blah. I couldn’t examine what the cause was, until I finally stepped over a posting telling that the file ~/.local/share/mime/globs contains an overfluid entry. Remove that entry containing the string ‘jpg’.
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Stephan on :
Sure. The target of this entry is that it might be found via Google by people with the same problem. And it also aims towards why ordinary Windows users won’t be happy with Linux on their desktop, because the solution is not trivial.
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