Is this a Nautilus bug?
Dick Davies
rasputnik at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 10:17:04 UTC 2005
On 09/08/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 09:53, Alf-Ivar Holm wrote:
> > How about using both approaches, and if file extension doesn't match
> > file(1) output, give a warning, but still along with some options?
>
> That's actually how I thought Nautilus *did* work. I'm sure I remember
> hearing about file magic in some version of GNOME. Maybe that was back in
> gmc (gnome midnight commander) days...
>
> I think metadata is the only real long-term solution, but that could certainly
> be acquired through different means. It would be a bit of work, but I think
> it's entirely possible:
>
> * Files downloaded from the web have mimetype data as part of the HTTP
> protocol, so that could be stored directly in the downloaded file.
How is that going to work ? for textfiles, for example.
Are you talking about some extra attributes in the filesystem?
Have a look around the ArsTechnica OSX articles to see how many ulcers
this gave Apple.
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