Konqueror Mimetype Scanning

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 16:48, Dik Takken wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> When I browse files using Konqueror, Konqueror seems to cause a lot of
> disk i/o everytime I open another directory. Is this caused by the
> mimetype scanning?
> 
> If this is the case, we could gain a lot of speed by using the same trick
> as Gnome 2.6 does. Gnome 2.6 delays accurate mimetype scanning until it is
> really important to know what type a file is, for example when the user
> opens the file. Untill then, it only looks at the filename extension. This
> way, none of the files need to be opened/closed while browsing.

Konqueror does exactly that too (and has been doing it since KDE-3.0 or maybe even before).

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).