[Digikam-devel] [Bug 143955] images without filename extension are inaccessible

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 12:26:29 GMT 2009


http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143955


Gilles Caulier caulier gilles gmail com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from Gilles Caulier <caulier gilles gmail com>  2009-02-06 13:26:29 ---
No, this is not possible to do especially with all RAW file like 80% of raw
format are based on a derivated (and proprietary/unstandardized) TIFF/EP
format.

If we parse file header to detect mime type, all RAW file will be loaded as
TIFF and this will fails of course (this is how digiKam play with files in the
pass - 0.8.x release)

Trying to make a RAW files header detection is out of box : there are more than
200 RAW file formats. We have no time to study structure for all these formats.

So, we use file extension. and it work perfectly in all case... Don't use file
extension as your risk. It think it's a bad idea in general.

Gilles Caulier


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