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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: mimetype specific information
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-10-25 19:12:30
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On Thu 25 Oct 01 17:13, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2001 00:31, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> > So where should this plugin system be added? The file manager view
> > directly or the KMimeType class? Could this be added to the
> > propertyNames() and property() methods of KMimeType or do these serve
> > another purpose? I'm not that much into this yet, but would like to give
> > it a try.
>
> I now see that what I wrote doesn't make any sense. The things I want to
> get are not properties of the mimetype but the file itself. So do you know
> an appropriate class to add this to or should I create a new one?

Just an idea, as I'm still looking into the compressed files problem, maybe 
this could be related.

What we would need here is a way first to detect the mimetype of a file, and 
then look whether we have a "meta info extractor" for this mimetype and if we 
have, start this thingy on the file and it could produce e.g. a xml file 
containing the meta info. This could be a new mimetype, and we could have a 
new service for this mimetype, which displays the xml nicely.

UI: property menu in konqy, something like "show meta info", then look for a 
filter (?) mimetype_of_the_file -> meta_info, if we have one do something 
like get("file:/blah/fasel.mp3#mp3info:") and display the result (meta_info) 
in the dialog.

Unfortunately I didn't have much time in the last weeks to look deeper in 
these issues.

Bye
Alex

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