Em Qui, 2003-12-25 Ãs 21:58, Adam Williams escreveu: > Why not support recording the mime-type of a file as meta-data (EA) on > filesystems that support it (every one of them at this point?). It > would take awhile to be adopted by most/all GNOME apps but seems (IMHO) > to clearly be the right way to do it. If GNOME VFS supported it then > it seems it would be easy to implement for alot of applications. > I agree with you, but while we must provide a quick solution, EA (and the attributes themselves) must be standardized cross-unix and cross-desktop. This will take some time to mature, since the mechanisms for sending files through the Internet (between computers, in general) must mature to support EA. I never used Apple operating systems, but it looks like they have such a mechanism. Nothing that a tar with EA support could not do. GNOME must provide room today to support state-of-the-art technologies in the future, but must at the same time provide solutions to today's users using today's technologies. > File extenstions are just DUMB and EASILY broken. Sniffing is expensive > and unreliable. Indeed, but it's all we have for now. Now = 2.6. -- Fabio Gomes de Souza <fabio@xxxxxxxxxx> (+55 81 9127-0597) .- GS2 TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA :: www.gs2.com.br |- IT Infrastructure :: Security :: Embedded systems :: Linux `- Olinda, Brazil - +55 81 3492-7777 - negocios@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
