From kde-core-devel  Tue Mar 27 23:59:34 2001
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:59:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Part loading where mimetype won't work and KIO filters.
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#if David Faure
> Currently the filter mechanism is never applied automatically.
> It's only used by kio_tar at the moment.
> So if you associate a filter with audio/wav, it won't do anything
> to normal konqueror usage - for the moment. We'll simply have
> to take into account, when integrating filters into konqueror, the
> fact that some filters should be automatically applied (gunzip/bunzip2)
> and some not. Probably a flag in the filter desktop file would do ?

Yes, that would probably do it. I would have preferred to make
KFilterBase more abstract and put stuff like compression logic
into a derived class (e.g. KCodecFilter), but I don't know if
radically altering that part of KIO's API is a good plan at
this point in time.

Rik