Re: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Julien Olivier wrote:
> > If a shellscript or binary has .jpg extension and we rely on extension, 
> > then image viewer is started, which will complain or crash. The file 
> > will *NOT* get executed. Is this so hard to understand?? File extensions 
> > are *NO* security risk!!!
>
>
> This is not how Nautilus does it now. It uses the file name extension to
> determine the icon to be displayed, and - then - uses sniffing when the
> user clicks on the file.

That would be really weird, because it would lie to the user. 
Fortunately it does not do so (Nautilus 2.4.1). I have a file 
"license.dat" which is shown with an MPG icon and when i double click on 
it, it is opened with mplayer, which is both wrong, but at least 
nautilus does what the user can expect when he looks at the icon.
Dunno why it's sniffed as MPG, file(1) reports it as "ASCII text".

BTW, why can't i simply select "Open with", type in "vi" and view the 
file? Instead i am confronted with a far too complex "Edit file type" 
dialog which does not even allow me to change the type of the file.

In Midnight Commander i at least have the command line, where i can type 
"more license.dat", in case mc does not do what i want when pressing F3.

For me, this is less than usable, that's why i continue to use mc for my 
daily work. I mainly use nautilus for viewing images with "Image 
Collection", which is really cool, but far to slow with large 
directories, because of mime-type sniffing.

Heinrich

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