Is this so hard to fix? Or important?

[Rodney Dawes]

On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 10:45 +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:49 AM, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > I thought in UNIX (and Linux, and similar) we did not depend on the
> > extension of a file name.
> 
> Try:
> $ eog /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png
> 
> Don't make excuses for stupid bug.

It's not an excuse. It's a fact. More importantly, the Ubuntu release
name is no
longer "warty" either, so that alone should give you some insight on why
it is
still named the way it is. How about simply making it actually be a .png
instead
of a JPEG (so that it will be a higher quality image, as JPEG
compression tends
to result in artifacts, particularly when scaling).

Furthermore, as already stated, this is a bug in eog (or perhaps
gdk-pixbuf), if it
can't open an image file where the extension doesn't match the content.
While it
would be nice to rename the file in question, it would be nicer to fix
eog to not
fail in such situations.