[plug] odd file manager hangs

[Mark O'Shea]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 16:55, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> I was hoping someone might be able to pop up with a quick "Yeah, I've 
> seen this," but as that's apparently not the case I'll continue to plod 
> onwards.
> 
Have you got any further with this Craig?  I've been following the
thread but didn't have any more ideas to add.  But it strikes me that
you shouldn't really ignore the thumbnail generation idea.  It looks
like these graphical filemanagers have different icons for each type of
file that it encounters (image, document, text file, script etc) and to
find out what type of file it is I assume it must examine the file,  I
can change the extension at the end and it still knows what it is (as I
would expect).  So for instance my konqueror here can tell the different
between a text file and a perl script.  I'm assuming that it looks at
the top line to find that out.

Could the filemanagers be having a quick check of all the files in the
directory?  And sometimes having trouble doing this?  That does of
course not get you much closer to a solution.  But I don't think it's
worth dismissing it straight off. (Unless you know how it works better
than me).

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Mark O'Shea