El mar, 20-01-2004 a las 03:42, Heinrich Rebehn escribió: > > > 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. The thing is, the extensions are a problem, both theoretically and practically (we've all seen how users of Other Operating Systems get bitten by this often - may I say "e-mail worm"?). What is needed is a trustable, dependable, architecturally integrated way of storing what type is a file, instead of sniffing either extensions or content. This was standardized to be EAs, with implementations now popping up. Abandoning file extensions and sniffing will take a lot of thinking out of the box. For once, let's do something right, instead of trying to band-aid our way around others' stupid design mistakes (MS-DOS). > 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 > -- > > Heinrich Rebehn > > University of Bremen > Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering > - Department of Telecommunications - > > Phone : +49/421/218-4664 > Fax : -3341 -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
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