Re: Dia-list digest, Vol 1 #758 - 5 msgs

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On 19 Feb 2003, dialist wrote:

> Date: 19 Feb 2003 12:29:14 -0800
> From: dialist <pvspam-dialist@hacklab.net>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Dia-list digest, Vol 1 #758 - 5 msgs
>
> > But inventing new extensions just
> > to convey whether  or not the file is compressed is not useful, given the
> > other variables.
>
> We live in a legacy world. GNOME (KDE?) uses file extensions to
> determine type, at least as far as I can tell (someone correct me if
> wrong). I believe it goes so far as to use extension to determine MIME

Nautilus has an option to determine MIME type using 'file' but by default
it uses the filename extensions because it is faster.

> It's ugly. I'd actually say given the current mess we're in to create a
> new extension ".gzdia" or whatever, and fix it when filesystems actually
> store MIME types with files. (We'd do away with extensions entirely at
> that time, would we not?)

I like it when people agree with me.

> Tim Ellis
> Senior Database Architect
> author, tedia2sql (tedia2sql.tigris.org)

Later
Alan