[Thunar-dev] mime-types detection

[samuel verstraete]

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 <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> 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
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