thnx Jaap.... your help really helped :) i now have .dat as text/plain which suits me just fine :) i never have .dat-mpeg's anyway so :)
thnx again, S. On 1/17/06, Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > samuel verstraete wrote: > > hi, > > > > I'm presenting you a problem i have with *all* file managers i tried > > uptill now... > > > > I'm working in a scientific sector and all our raw data (which are > > just text files) come overhere as .dat file (dat like in data, pretty > > logical... for a scientist like myself) > > > > Now of course i know that files with a .dat extension are supposed to > > be mpeg files (format/containers ,whatever) > > > > But i thought that thunar was reading some kind of file header to > > detect the file type instead of just checking the file extension? > > > > Cause right now it is of course trying to open this thing with a movie > > program (xfmedia/totem/mplay/gxine) which is of course totally > > unvalid.... > > > > Not really sure what the question is but... any reactions on this? > > > > (btw i tried nautilus, xfffm, rox and thunar :) ) > > Thunar won't check the content if a known extension is found (else it > would be too slow to load large directories, possibly from slow media). > The .dat entry in the shared-mime-info database was discussed some time > ago on the xdg mailinglist, since it's problematic to associate .dat > with mpeg video (most of these files aren't mpegs at all). Don't > remember the result of that discussion tho. IMHO, the proper way to fix > this would be to remove the .dat match from the shared-mime-info > database completely and force file manager to do content sniffing on > .dat files. > > > gr,S. > > Benedikt > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
