Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

[Fabio Gomes <bugtraq gs2 com br>]

Em Sáb, 2003-12-27 às 08:31, Adam Williams escreveu:

> Nautilus ain't the worlds fastest file broweser but this thread makes it
> sound like there is some just-horrible-borderline-unusable performance
> issue.  There isn't.

There are serious performance issues, because a i286 with 4MB of RAM
running WinFile.exe on Windows 3.x can do *a lot* more than an AMD Duron
950 with 256 MB of RAM running Nautilus. This sucks. A file manager is a
damn simple and basic application. 

A basic application, intended to run most of the time to do the most
basic thins in an OS like launching programs, copying and opening
documents, should not hog the performance or eat all the memory. 

The file manager must be lightweight. Or people will continue to rip
Nautilus off GNOME. Make a poll and you will see how much people rip
Nautilus off because it is slow or, in the worst case, don't even use
GNOME at all. I've brought up this discussion because I *use* Nautilus.
Many people here that say they are against extension-based MIME type
recognition admit that they don't use Nautilus at all.

I ripped off content-based MIME type detection from my GNOME-VFS and now
I got decent (acceptable) performance in Nautilus. And all my friends
that use GNOME are asking me to help them do the same. 

Users don't care about content sniffing. They simply want decent
performance. If content sniffing was possible with decent performance,
it would be a bonus, but users would still not care about removing it.

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