This is very very confusing for new users. To have a file's icon and type just change on your after you click it would I dare say, frighten some new computer users. How many resources are given to detecting a given files mime type? Could this be done somewhat how like thumbnails? Initial view shows initial mime type, with a clock decoration on the icon, as the real mime type is determined. I do think this is a big concern from a usability perspective. On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 07:40, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > > > > Yeah, i just read the bug report (sorry to haven't done it before). > > Well, without your mail, I wouldn't have been aware of that bug and > wouldn't have looked at it. So thanks for bringing that issue to the > list ;) > > > Just to > > clear my mind, how can it be a different behaviour depending on the selection > > of the file ? > > When displaying a file, Nautilus only looks at the filename to try to > guess the mime type. This is the method used by gnomevfs-info too. When > you click on a file, Nautilus sniffs its mime type, and sometimes > (because of bugs in shared-mime-info, or because of bogus > filename/extension), the mime type found by looking at the filename and > the mime type found by looking at the file content differ. See > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-January/msg00080.html > for more details about how Nautilus guesses the type of a file. > > Hope that helps, > > Christophe
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