Erik Harrison wrote: >>>I noticed the same thing. >>>Opening my /usr/bin directory which contains about 2128 files took >>>thunar about 20 seconds. Rox opened it in 3 seconds. >>> >>>Odd... >> >>For /usr/bin, that's the expected behaviour, and easy to explain. ROX >>doesn't do magic lookups on the MIME database, while Thunar follows the >>MIME spec (with one small exception) and does the magic lookup if none >>of the glob patterns match. > > Possible optimization Benny, I haven't thought this through to it's > extreme yet, but.... could you possibly skip magic lookup on files > with the exec bit set? Noting the way that Windows works, it's highly > rare to have a file with non extension (you have to fight to get an > app to not auto add an extension), and except in the case of limited > filesystems should the x bit be a pretty clear indicator that the file > is an application?
That way it's impossible to distinguish a shell script from an ELF binary, and you would not be able to open shell scripts (and perl scripts, etc.) in a text editor. Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev