On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 18:14 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:53:35PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Does the Windows Explorer draw icons based only on name and metadata?
>
> >From what I can see it does icons on non-executable entirely based on
> the extension and nothing else on the first pass. Executables are
> looked inside for an icon (and there seems to be cache effects at
> times, especially visible on the desktop). Then for images a second
> pass generates icons depending on the contents (with, once again, a
> cache hidden somewhere).
>
> Not a bad strategy, too. Doing a file(1) on everything can only be
> slow given the random disk accesses it generates. Maybe a file(1) as
> a _second_ pass would work.
Gack, does Nautilus really do file(1) on everything? That's unspeakably
awful.
Lee
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