From kde-core-devel  Tue Mar 27 18:38:46 2001
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:38:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Part loading where mimetype won't work and KIO filters.
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98571832622907

On Tuesday 27 March 2001 16:19, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> 1.
>
> I'd like to have a KPart loaded when audiocd:/ is requested. I can't
> do this based on mimetype because audiocd:/ has a type of 'directory'.
>
> Is there a way to load a part based on URL ?
>
> The other tricky part is that the part must not be loaded if a filename
> is specified, e.g. audiocd:/track01.wav

This was on kde-devel, it's probably also the solution to your problem, so 
try  to do it :-)

On Tuesday 27 March 2001 18:10, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2001 17:14, aleXXX wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 March 2001 17:18, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 March 2001 16:44, aleXXX wrote:
> > > > How about different mimetypes for different kind of directories ?
> > > > E.g. a special mimetype for a directory containing mp3's, this one
> > > > could then be displayed with a special mp3 dir view, and so on. It
> > > > could be specified either by the reporting ioslave or by a .directory
> > > > file in the parent dir. Did I ever mention that a special mimetype
> > > > for hosts would be cool ? ;-)
....
> > > That's another good thing about testing for S_IFDIR to know if
> > > something is a directory. The mimetype name itself can be anything
> > > (thus changing the icon accordingly etc.). You'll have to check that
> > > there isn't any test for inode/directory anymore though, there may
> > > still be a few around.
> >
> > And as usually, can you give me some more hints how to do it ?
> > Or is there actually not much to do ?
> > Where can the tests be (konqy, libkio,...) ?
>
> Don't know... let's grep :)
>
> ./kservicetype.cpp:    if ( _servicetype != "inode/directory" &&
> _servicetype != "inode/directory-locked" ) Ah, this means that e.g.
> inode/host will be part of "all/allfiles" instead of "all/alldirs". A very
> small problem since those aren't much used afaik, but still - more on this
> below.
>
> The other matches I found in kio were irrelevant (tests only
> for local files, or for unknown-yet mimetypes, etc.)
>
> Now grepping in konqueror...
> One problem is associating the konq views with those
> mimetypes, so that they can open them.
>
> Ah, maybe inode/host could _inherit_ inode/directory ?
> That would solve the problem very nicely.
> Inheritance in servicetypes already exists (I added that some time ago),
> and mimetypes are simply particular service types.
> That would be the nicest way to go. Try with
> X-KDE-Derived=inode/directory in the mimetype file for inode/host.
> Then the above test can be changed to use inheritance instead,
> and the tests in Konqueror too.


Bye
Alex