Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

[Dalibor Petricevic <daliborp iskon hr>]

On 12/26/2003 04:24 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > The reason for this is that a)
> > is the case of a users error and trivially fixed, most programms can
> > even simply avoid this to happen at all by forcing a correct suffix.
> > b) however is the result of the user doing nothing wrong but the
> > computer going goofy and leaving the user with no way to fix this,
> > basically rendering the filemanager unusable for some types of files.
>
> The users targetted by GNOME won't have any clue how to fix a misdetection of 
> the mime type of a file whatever the mime type detection scheme is (by 
[...]

O.K. a little OT:
WHO do you mean when you say "users targetted by GNOME"?!
What about users already using GNOME?
Less and less I like the whole idea of content based file recognizing; 
don't have to say anything that hasent been proposed already, but sure 
as hell I'm thinking on this one. Some interesting things have been 
heard in this thread(s).

Cheers,
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Dalibor Petricevic
Iskon Internet d.d.