Konqueror Mimetype Scanning

[Dik Takken]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, David Faure wrote:

> 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).

How can Konqueror still display the correct filetype icon when the file
extension is wrong? It needs to do a full mimetype scan to do that.

Dik