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

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Apr 17 19:09:44 UTC 2007


Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Non-technical people don't care about extensions. They just want to
>> click on a file and play it.
>>
> 
> How can they know what to play?
> 
> Scenario:
> Your mother downloaded a few audio tracks and a few video music videos
> from the same author. How can she know which is which? Click through
> all of them? I would get pissed :)
> 
A better fix would be to do more then look at the extension, and
display an icon based on the mime type. That way, even if the file
gets saved with the wrong extension, it still shows up as the
correct file type. This has an added benefit because a file will
show the correct icon even if the extension is wrong, or hidden.

Mikkel
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