Re: Re: [PATCH] more GnuPG UI stuff

[Darko Obradovic <dobradovic gmx de>]

Am 2003.04.16 10:21 schrieb(en) albrecht.dress@arcor.de:
> Does file-roller rely on extensions? Balsa stores temp files without
> any meaningful extension, which could explain the difference. However,
> IMHO apps should NOT use  extensions (this is Winbloze crap) but
> gnome-vfs or file & friends to determine the content types.

Sorry this one I nearly forgot about...
Just tested it, and you're right, file-roller depends upon a suffix to 
determine the archive-type. But I wouldn't consider that evil 
DOS-stuff... file-roller can't expect a default filetype, and is it 
possible to determine the archive-type purely from looking at the 
contents? There's no shebang or identification as I could see when 
opening the archive with less.

So either it's a bad implementation by file-roller, or balsa should 
take care of preserving the suffix of files, at least those who can't 
be identified precisely by their content. Shouldn't be that hard to 
append the suffix to the random string, no?

bye,

Darko