some issues with nautilus MIME associations and thumbnails

Siddharth Toshniwal tsiddharth at kodiaknetworks.com
Thu May 27 06:40:58 UTC 2004


Hi Dwaine, all

An update on these issues. Got some help from a friend.
The thumbnail generation was not working due to the JFIF
standard not being processed for some reason (my libjpeg
version is libjpeg-6b-31.1, do I need an update?).

Ran the 'file' command on an image for which a thumbnail
was generated properly and one for which it was not.

The output for the proper image (file1) was:
JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), 144 x 144

and for the one without the thumbnail (file2) was:
JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.02, resolution (DPI), 144 x 144

Opened the file2.jpg in gimp and saved it without any
changes. This changes the JFIF standard to the 'desired'
one (1.01) and thumbnail is shown :)

So there is a workaround for this issue at least. The MIME
association still has me stumped. Anyone with clues as to
what to do for that??

thanks,
Siddharth.




On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:45, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> Siddharth Toshniwal wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Have been facing a few issues with nautilus for the last
> >couple of days. I've upgraded my system (which was originally
> >RedHat 9) using up2date using the rawhide channel, so I
> >guess I may have some packages which are not working well
> >with each other. I don't know exactly which upgrade has
> >resulted in these problems, so I'm posting for help if
> >anyone has solved similar issues. The details are as follows:
> >
> >* Nautilus does not show thumbnails for some of the images
> >  within one directory while for others (which have the same
> >  extension) it does so properly. Opening the images with
> >  either eog or gimp does not report any errors.
> >
> >* I seem to have some problem with *all* my MIME associations
> >  (including the ones that are configured by default usually)
> >  Even if I associate them manually (.jpg to eog, .doc to
> >  star-office and so on), nautilus does not open the same
> >  when I double click in the file window. I have to open
> >  any documents using the terminal only :( 
> >  The file association is shown correctly the next time I
> >  double click the file and click on 'Associate', but
> >  somehow the association does not work on its own.
> >
> >The packages that I have installed are:
> >  nautilus-media-0.8.0-2
> >  nautilus-2.6.0-5
> >  shared-mime-info-0.14-1
> >  gnome-mime-data-2.4.1-4
> >  gnome-vfs2-2.6.0-8
> >
> >I read up the following article but it is not clear to 
> >me yet as to what I've done incorrectly:
> >http://www.amitysolutions.com.au/documents/GnomeFiles-technote.pdf
> >
> >thanks,
> >Siddharth.
> >
> >  
> >
> I have the same problem with Konqueror.   No thumbnails previews.
> 
> Dwaine.






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