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Ristretto is the default MIME handler for PGM files, even though it cannot display them

Bug #1771227 reported by Alistair Buxton
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Bug Description

To reproduce:

1. Be running Xubuntu 18.04 with defaults
2. Download these example PGM files:
    http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/pgma/apollonian_gasket.ascii.pgm
    http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/pgmb/baboon.pgm
3. Double click on them in Thunar.

Expected result:

The images should be displayed in a suitable application.

Actual result:

Ristretto opens and displays no image, as if it had been run with no arguments.

Opening the files through the Ristretto file->open menu also fails, as does running "ristretto <file>" from the command line.

The files open correctly in GIMP.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ristretto 0.8.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue May 15 00:19:27 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-07 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: ristretto
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton) wrote :
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In , Nbdspcl (nbdspcl) wrote :

Beginning with 0.8.2 version Ristretto ceased to open PPM files. I was advised on the forums that this problem looks similar to another one that already has been resolved:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13489

Thanks in advance.

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

Xfce Forums thread: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11782

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Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton) wrote :

Neither the linked bug nor the forum post seem relevant. I have no problem displaying PPM and PNM files. Only PGM files are a problem. It is a different format and as far as I can tell Ristretto has never supported it.

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format

I assumed that it is the same core issue. Furthermore, Ristretto 0.8.0 in Xubuntu 16.04.5 is able to display those two example PGM files.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in ristretto:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Igor Zakharov (f2404) wrote :

Hi, is the problem still there in version 0.8.3?

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In , Gitbot (gitbot) wrote :

Igor referenced this bugreport in commit 4d03ad59054fa48a0615ea0c055574ebe777442d

Fix opening of PPM files

https://git.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/commit?id=4d03ad59054fa48a0615ea0c055574ebe777442d

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in ristretto:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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In , Igor Zakharov (f2404) wrote :

This bug seems to be derived from the Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ristretto/+bug/1771227 in which case the title should have really been "PGM files are not opened".

However, regardless of that, the commit above does fix opening PGM files.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ristretto - 0.8.4-0ubuntu1

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ristretto (0.8.4-0ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release
    - Fix displaying PGM files (LP: #1771227)
  * d/patches/lp1756191.patch:
    - Dropped, included upstream.

 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:36:30 -0400

Changed in ristretto (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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