Re: nautilus open .mod

[Robert Moonen <rmoonen bigpond net au>]

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Afief Halumi wrote:
> I'd like to add that the same horrible problem happens when opening
> PHP files that happen to not be PHP files.
> I wonder why so much empathis is put on the file extension when Unix
> systems usually don't give a damn about them anyway $ file filename
> and you know if it's ASCII or an MP3 or whatever.

Because KDE and now Gnome are trying to behave like Windoze, because the
way to make a desktop popular seems to be to appease the lowest common
denominator.

> This warning is just as annoying for me as vista's "cancel or allow",
> it should be the responsibility of the program(text editor? audio
> player?) not to cause a security risk when trying to open a weird
> file.

Change your gnome preferences.
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