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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/plugins/shorturi
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-08-23 13:32:08
Message-ID: 200608231532.09198.mueller () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:32, David Faure wrote:

> > This is only about filenames without path. for those QFile::exists() has
> > probably no useful meaning, and would be wrong anyway.
> Why? Doesn't it use the current directory?

what is the "current directory" of the minicli? by accident it is the current 
directory of the kdesktop process, but you can hardly claim that this is by 
design or wanted that way. 

so you'd have to search in a number of known or fixed locations. 

> So basically italian users are screwed now, right?
> mywebsite.it will be found as audio/x-mod by KMimeType::findByPath even if
> there is no such file in the path (see the patterns for audio/x-mod).

I'm open for suggestions on how to improve it. Perhaps only if there is an 
extension and it is 3 chars. or do you have a counterexample for that as 
well? :)

> Or are you interested in the case of typing a file name that does NOT
> exist, i.e. for creating it?

Its for a file that does exist, but not in the current directory. 


Dirk

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