Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 04:31, Adam Williams wrote:
> > > > DETECTION BY SUFFIX                                	
> > > >  1.Allows wrong results on invalid input (files with wrong 
> > > >    suffixes)
> > > Cannot be fixed to run correctly.
> > Yes it can, the file suffix can be changed.
> > There is nothing more frustrating than opening a dir of mp3's in nautilus and have it 
> >take over 2 min to display the files.  While in windows it takes the
> >blink of an eye.
> 
> I wonder how many MP3 are in the directory.  I can (on my not very
> impressive system) open a directory with 170 MP3s and a dozen of other
> various file types in nautilus and it is pretty near "blink of an eye"
> speed.  Certainly no where even close to 2 minutes.  

I just used Nautilus to open my music library folder which contains 448
other folders. There was no noticeable delay in displaying them.

> Perhaps your dreadful nautilus performance is symptomatic of some other
> efficiency issue or problem with your system.
> 
> Nautilus ain't the worlds fastest file broweser but this thread makes it
> sound like there is some just-horrible-borderline-unusable performance
> issue.  There isn't.
> 
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