Am Mittwoch, den 01.08.2007, 07:20 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson: > Given all the people swearing about the current gnome mime warning > dialog I'd say it get things wrong often enough to matter. > > Often this is due to complicated contailer formats (like avi or mov) > rather than someone messing with the file.
Actually most of the container format problems are solved. A more significant problem is that network protocols do not support parallel connections and thus sniffing without lag, and we have to resort to extensions anyway (.txt on FTP, for instance). It's just not feasible to read() remote files before opening them, at least not if we do not cache the results [which is done for thumbnailing]. This shows one of the major (as far as I know unsolved) problems of modern desktop / network file system integration: Is it a good idea to determine information about remote files and cache it, taken that we can't properly uniquely identify remote files - except with an URI/mtime tuple, but as they change, you'll have to assume to have a completely new file system object and throw away all and re-read file info (MIME type, thumbnails, metadata and so on). -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
