From kde-devel  Sat Jan 31 21:19:08 2004
From: Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:19:08 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: User Settings issues
Message-Id: <200401312219.08117.frans.englich () telia ! com>
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On Saturday 31 January 2004 20:22, André Somers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >     I wanted to point out a suggestion regarding the
> >current design of "file associations". Usually an
> >application handles a set of mimetypes, hence one
> >logical place to set the preferred application<->mime
> >type would be application wise. For eg. I would like
> >kplayer to handle all the video types it can handle
> >and juk to handle all the audio types it can handle.
> >but this is difficult to accomplish. Currently you
> >have to search for all the video mime types and for
> >each one put kplayer to be the preferred app. Is there
> >some way the mime types can be set on a per
> >application basis. This would seem to be a good
> >option. An application can have some sort of settings
> >page to accomplish this and global support in the libs
> >would be very good in my opinion.
>
> I agree this would be very usefull (though the current way of editing
> should not be abandoned for this). Please add it as a wish to the
> bugsystem. I think there should be some common way for applications to use
> this, so maybe a wish against KDELibs or something like that?

FWIW; I think this is a known issue, it is possible this is related to the 
mime spec at fd.o. It's annoying, and have been pretty long in KDE, AFAICT.

Could someone clarify the status on this issue?


		Frans

 
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