[Thunar-dev] Slow media

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jens Luedicke wrote:
> On 7/16/05, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
>  
> 
>>Ok, just checked with other file managers (Nautilus, ROX, Xffm), and
>>this directory is not fun to load with any of them either. The problem
>>is that the file extensions are b0rked (name.xx_) and so the MIME code
>>has to open every single file, just to realize that it's only "garbage"
>>(application/octect-stream).
> 
> 
> hmm... just an idea: 
> 
> if the directory contains more than X files, 
> just try to get the mimetype by the extensions. 
> Otherwise by mimetype magic. 

Not really doable, because then you'd always get 
"application/octect-stream" for every single file in /usr/local/bin, 
/usr/bin, etc.

Benedikt