Although since KDE 4.10.0 Gwenview knows to open images with incorrect extensions, Dolphin still won't generate thumbnails for them when Preview is enabled. For example, if a jpg file has the extension png, no thumbnail is shown and instead we see the default image icon. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In Dolphin, browse a folder which contains an image. 2. Make sure the image's extension is incorrect. If it's a jpg make it a png or the other way around. 3. Click the "Preview" button to enable thumbnails. Actual Results: You'll see the default image icon. Expected Results: You should see a preview of the image. This was a known issue in Gwenview but since KDE 4.10.0 it was fixed there. I thought this would also fix thumbnails automatically but it seems not, so I believe it needs its own attention. Although no one should use incorrect extensions, this happens shockingly often for images I get online. For that reason a lot of stuff I save from galleries doesn't preview, which is why this bug can frequently be a problem.
See bug 182361 for the gwenview ticket. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 220496 ***