[kde-linux] grumble about konqueror image gallery change

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Sun Oct 28 17:00:25 UTC 2007


david wrote:
> <grumble>
> 
> For some reason, awhile back, the Konqueror image gallery plugin decided 
> to give the thumbnails double file extensions (filename.jpg.jpg). When I 
> went to report this at the kde.org bug database, I found it had already 
> been reported and marked as WONTFIX because the developer decided for 
> some utterly irrational reason to no longer have the plugin trim off the 
> file extension before naming the thumb. That bug report said something 
> about avoiding filename clashes, but the thumbnails are put into a 
> separate thumbs folder, so there's no possible filename clash to avoid!
> 
> Anyway, when I tried to provide a comment to that effect, the kde.org 
> bug database gave me an error and invited me to contact the webmaster 
> with the date/time and info. Forget it. The server's already recorded 
> the date/time and logged the error, so forget it.
> 
> </grumble>
> 
> And my wife's laptop with PCLinuxOS got GIMP 2.4 last week during 
> update, and my laptop with Debian is still stuck with 2.2 ...
> 
> Sorry for grumbles, just needed to get it off the to do list!
> 
Could you please provide me with some more specific information?

Which function in this in Konqueror?  Is it:

	View -> View Mode -> Photobook

??????

What bug number is it?

Exactly where do these double extensions show up?

Thank you

-- 
JRT



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