Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File type by extension is evil (was Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time) | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:28:07 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:32 +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> [060109 19:44]: > > >From what I can see it does icons on non-executable entirely based on > > the extension and nothing else on the first pass. > > > > Not a bad strategy, too. Doing a file(1) on everything can only be > > slow given the random disk accesses it generates. Maybe a file(1) as > > a _second_ pass would work. > > That may be a good strategy if you have user conditioned to all the > effects you get by this (i.e. if you only focus on Windows users and > want them provide with a system as broken as they know it) and programs > adopted to cope with the most ill effects (ever asked why some browsers > always foozle the name of downloaded files with some .html or the like?) > > For everyone else looking at the file is the only sane way to know the type > of file.
OK so it's prohibitively expensive to get the file type so this is not something Nautilus should be doing to every file before even starting to display the icons.
Lee
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