Re: [mat-dev] About the "force" option in the GUI

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:42:18 +0200 jvoisin <julien.voisin@???> wrote:
> I am currently working on the GUI, to make it more robust and clear.

Did you also took time to look at the nautilus extension? I tried it on
3.4 and got a nautilus segfault that I should investigate more.

> I was thinking about the "force" parameter; when ticketed, files
> marked as "clean" are not processed.
>
> The concern is that some file can not be clearly marked as clean (eg.
> PDF): only superficial metadata can be checked.
>
> I think that the way to go is to completely remove the "force"
> parameter, and to clean the file anyway (since cleaning process are
> all lossless (except maybe PDF, but the loss is really minor),

Well, depends which PDF. I saw PDF where there was a big quality loss.
But that's another issue.

> we can process files as much as we want).
>
> Drawbacks:
> - process a file takes more time than doing a simple check
>
> Benefits:
> - this simplify the GUI
> - this prevent mistakes
> - this simplify ( = completely remove) the classification process
>
> What do you think ?

I think it would be an improvement. Go on!

Cheers