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

[Scott van Looy]

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.

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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