I went to the Hubble website, and wanted to save a greetings card from Firefox :
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/holiday/hc023/ I clicked on some format : http://hubblesite.org/gallery/holiday/hc023/card_6x4 which opened a download box, with the image name : hubblecard023_6x4.jpg then I was asked : "What should Firefox do with this file?" I answered : "Open with Image Viewer (default)" (it was kind of a test, to see what was this "Image Viewer") then a window opened, ps -ef told me the process was called "eog"; the window contained the image name in the title bar; then, from within eog, I clicked on "File->Save as" : well, strangely, in its "Name:" input field, it does not provides, as a default entry, the image name, the input field is empty - never mind, I just typed some name 'hubblecard", then clicked on "Save"; and here, sadly, an error message poped up : "File format is unknown or unsupported Eye of GNOME could not determine a supported writable file format based on the filename. Please try a different file extension like .png or .jpg." So this gets me angry : why, on a Linux/Unix OS, should the file format be determined by the FILENAME, and more, by the EXTENSION ? please, let this to the Windows community ! you should supply a scroll list, displaying the supported image formats ! and accept, besides and optionally, to determine the file format from the extension for non-IT users. Do you need more informations ? Best regards R. Grasso -- wish : no compulsory extension https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312632 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
