On Wednesday April 07 2021 09:59:15 Moritz Petersen wrote:
>Well, a basic directory listing is essentially what I want from
>dolphin, right?
>You don't need to access a file to know it's size
>and timestamps for example
For the size I agree, but at least some of the timestamps are probably stored at the file level (instead of at the directory level). I assume that reading extended attributes will also update the atime stamp.
>need to do so to display them. But then again you already need to
>read magic numbers to make sensible assumptions about the type of
>content. Empty files probably weren't the most realistic test
>case.
Actually, they would be to exclude the idea that magic imprints could be involved. A sensible "magic" implementation wouldn't try to read those from empty files ;)
>Looks like atime just isn't as useful as I had hoped it would
>be. I'm going to go for a different solution.
I was going to point out that there are ways to enable atime only for certain directory trees but apparently that's a moot point now :)
>No, I do not have that panel enabled. I have also disabled all
>info columns, no change.
The devs may have decided simply to read all data instead of adding tests (for what's enabled) in multiple locations.
R
