Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

>  or provide a very easy way to
> circumvents it.

Here we are, we need a usable way to open a file with a user chosen app.

> And it should especially be transparent, currenty I
> have a bunch of files that get detected wrong, while pretty similar
> files get detected correct, this is pretty damn confusing and
> irritating.

Can you point us at the corresponding bug reports in bugzilla ?

> The suffix should be more authoritive than the content, at least in
> some cases, ie when I name a .html, .xml file or whatever .txt, I want
> it to be handled as plain text, not launch mozilla once I click on it.

.html/.xml files should be handled as text/plain? Hmmm... It seems you 
are confusing proper behaviour and the way *you* want things to work to 
fit your habits.

Cheers,

Christophe