On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:37:49AM +0100, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > It's more than changing the GUI around the views. You also want
> > customize views, kio integration, mimetype checking, etc. 
> 
> Yeah. If you really want to use the KDE mimetype stuff, you should use
> libkonq/KDirLister. 

No, just use libkio. KMimeType.

> But then libkfile depends on libkonq, see?
No need to.

> So imho: we don't need mimetype checking in a file dialog
> do we?
I think we _do_.
We do for the icons anyway.

> The common usage is the selection by file extension, if at all and not by
> the file type itself! And in addition it should be fast. I don't say
> KDirLister is slow, but a raw QIconView is probably faster. 
KMimeType::findByURL is fast now.

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