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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdelibs/kio/kio
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-03-31 19:58:45
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On Sunday 31 March 2002 21:29, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Sunday March 31, 2002 11:25, David Faure wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 March 2002 14:36, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > On Sunday 31 March 2002 03:12, you wrote:
> > > >  Implemented support for mimemagic "snippets", i.e.
> > > > $prefix/share/config/magic/*.magic files which are added to the
> > > > global magic file.
> > >
> > > Oh, can a user add his own "snippets" now, ion .kde/share/...?
> >
> > Sure, that's a possible prefix, thanks to KStandardDirs.
> > However there's no GUI for this. Should there be?
> 
> I don't think it could hurt to add it to the File Associations, as another 
> advanced tab.

Except that the syntax for this file is quite tricky... someone who knows that
syntax surely knows how to create a .magic file in the right dir anyway
(given docu). Of course one could also create a complete dialog with
a combo for the type of data and more widgets to help creating that
magic line..... but that's quite some work for a feature that no user requested
up to now. Hence the question whether this is really useful and worth it.
I'd be tempted to say that this is more of a distributor thing, people creating their
own data format can provide a .magic file with it.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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