Is this a Nautilus bug?

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> writes:

> 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.

How about using both approaches, and if file extension doesn't match
file(1) output, give a warning, but still along with some options?

        Affi