Re: file chooser not to display icons

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 31 March 2010 20:43,  <m c wilkins massey ac nz> wrote:
> You say all the icons have been drawn: do you know if your gedit is
> just displaying two sorts of icons, one for directory, and one for a
> file?

Yes, it sniffs each file to determine the file type. If it was simply
displaying a list of filenames it would be quite a bit quicker still.

For example, if I look at a directory containing an a.out I see a
funny blue square as an icon. If I rename it to "aaaargh", the blue
icon stays.

John