showphoto

[Jerry]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:09:10 +0100, Ángel stated:

>On 2019-01-19 at 11:09 -0500, Jerry wrote:
>> gpg> showphoto  
>> Displaying jpeg photo ID of size 88074 for key 3873063887DEC564 (uid
>> 3)
>> 
>> After a few seconds, an error message pops up on the screen. 
>> 
>> C:\Users\Gerard\AppData\Local\Temp\gpg-62cno9\87DEC564.jpg contains
>> an invalid path.
>> 
>> I have tried several times with each uid and it always issues an
>> error message.
>> 
>> I was only experimenting with the idea of adding a photo, but I would
>> still like to know why it is apparently not working correctly.  
>
>showphoto launches an external program to view the photo. Since you are
>using Windows, the path has backslashes, that the receiving program
>seems to be treating as escape characters rather than a path (plus, the
>default of xloadimage is unlikely to be available there) 
>
>Changing to a different viewer would probably fix it. And it will
>likely work flawless if you tried the same steps from a *nix machine.

This sounds more like a bug to me. I'll probably gather all the info I
can and submit it and see what happens.

-- 
Jerry
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