On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 01:54, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:28:17PM -0500, Ettore wrote: > > Maybe there is a way to push the MIME type handling part of GNOME VFS > > down the stack so GTK can depend on it? Maybe it could go into GLib? > > Pushing sniffing that far down has some nice elements, but will > create tension with the different use cases. For something like > nautilus you can trade accuracy for speed, it absolutely must be > able to churn through lots of files. For document-centric apps the > trade off is reversed. The application needs to make the best > possible guess about what type of file it needs to open. It can do > plenty of preprocessing for that single data blob. I don't understand this objection; the file manager and the apps must have absolutely the same view of what type a certain file is. Also, the consistency between the file selector and the file manager must be total. Or not? -- Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>
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