----- Original Message ----- From: iain <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2003 11:55 am Subject: Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:48 -0300, Fabio Gomes wrote: However...
DETECTION BY SUFFIX 1.Allows wrong results on invalid input (files with wrong suffixes)
Cannot be fixed to run correctly.
Yes it can, the file suffix can be changed.
There is nothing more frustrating than opening a dir of mp3's in nautilus and have it take over 2 min to display the files. While in windows it takes the blink of an eye.
In a blink of an eye because it's making assumptions based on file suffix, which has no guarantee to be correct.
I am all for nautilus using the extension when available and sniffing when appropriate (a file missing a suffix or when requested by the user)
File sniffing is at least attempting to apply some logical effort to file determination.
-- Until later, Geoffrey esoteric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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