> > Applications that simply go by the extension name are doing it wrong and > > should be fixed. As it has already be pointed out there are better ways. > > Take an application such as nautilus. AFAIK, nautilus (or gnome-vfs, or > whatever) used to look inside each file to determine what mime type it > was, in order to display it alongside the name and attach an icon. This > was very slow, since it had to open each file in a directory. Can't comment for gnome. I never use it if I can help it. But in KDE this doesn't seem to be an issue. konqueror can open directories with many files and, as far as I can tell, determines their type almost instantly (at least from my perception it is very very fast). Maybe gnome could learn from KDE ;) Chris
