Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Ian Malone]

On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> On Apr 18 Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
>
> > Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >>>> And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files
> >>>> on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes?
> >>> I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system,
> >>> then you are probably stuck with something like the present system.
> >>> If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you
> >>> only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if
> >>> the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will
> >>> also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad...
> >>
> >> This is exactly what Apple *used* to do.
> >
> > Until someone realized that you might use the same file with more than one
> > application?
>
> Until someone cunningly pointed out that no file extension and the icon
> being kept in the resource fork was a TINY BIT OF A SECURITY HOLE.
>

This isn't what's being proposed though.  Having the icon stored
(effectively) in the file means a file can tell the user it's something
different from what it's telling the OS.  If the metadata records
mime-type then the OS tells the user what it thinks the file is
and deals with it in the appropriate way.

> I want my OS to decide if an mp3 is an mp3, not any arbitrary file to look
> like one and then delete all my documents when I double click it
>
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