Re: Some examples of sniffing usefulness

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

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> first, I'm not there to troll :)
>
> I'm very happy some measures are taken to bring speed to the otherwise
> nice nautilus, but I was a bit concerned about the removal of automatic
> sniffing. Well, today I stumbled on one of the cases where it's useful:
> I just downloaded a big bunch of .wav files, and some of them were not
> correctly fetched. Even if they were saved as *.wav, they were in fact
> .html files containing some 404 error page.
> There I was pretty happy to still have nautilus 2.4 and to see these
> files stamped with "html" icons. Way easier to find and delete the wrong
> ones !
>
> So I would understand if some users would prefer the current (old ?)
> behavior. Having wrongly-suffixed files may happen legitimately.
>
> 	Xav
I have different expiriences. Opening a folder with 8,000 jpg images in 
nautilus takes ages, because *every* file in the folder is *opened* 
(although the icons have already been created) which would not be 
necessary if mimetype was detected by extension.
So both ways have their pros and cons and i think the most important 
thing is that the user stays in cotrol, that is mimetype detection 
method should be a configurable item!

Heinrich
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