Re: new mime detection approach

From: Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>
To: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
Cc: gnome-devel-list gnome org, Nautilus <nautilus-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: new mime detection approach
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:14:42 +0100

Le mer 14/01/2004 à 17:57, Alexander Larsson a écrit :

> I'm sure some people will dislike this behaviour

I'm sure too. And it does nothing for the many filetypes which can be
thumbnailed - and there will be more and more of them.
I think you both gave it lots of thoughts, so why didn't you go with a
proper metadata system, correctly filled by compliant apps when they
save their files, and re-sniffed only when necessary ?

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