Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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My guess is that they need to look inside (open, read then close) the file to determine file types - text or binary, etc. This kill speed.
On Windows, file types, for the most part, are determined by their extensions, so Windows explorer is pretty snappy. There are exceptions, though. If FrontPage is installed, explorer will look inside a html file to determine if it is generated by M$ front page and in this case, browsing a folder with hundreds of html files will slow down explorer dramatically.