Is this a Nautilus bug?

Lee Braiden lee_b at digitalunleashed.com
Mon Aug 8 14:14:08 UTC 2005


On Monday 08 August 2005 14:58, Dick Davies wrote:
> It uses the file extension.
>
> yes, that's really dumb.

Agreed.  But on the other hand, "guessing" a file type by the byte patterns 
that happen to be inside (when many file formats are not designed for that) 
is pretty dumb too.  The only other real solution is using extended 
attributes to store filetype info.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20050808/37b10da1/attachment.sig>


More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list