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On Saturday 15 October 2005 21:21, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On Thursday 13 October 2005 17:59, Thomas Kadauke wrote:
> > Recently, I uploaded several KFile plugins to kde-apps.org:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> interesting reading below... I'm working (with a few others) on kfile
> plugins too, in the field of chemistry. First KDE work too:
>
> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=3D28995
>
> (the sources are in SVN in playground/utils/kfile_chemical/)
>

Uh, me too! I have developed three IF related kfile plugins.
I've added them to playground/games/kfile-plugins, and packages can be foun=
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here:

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=3D29278

By the way, currently, all my mime types rely on the extension to recognize=
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the file content. This is not satisfactory, since, for example,=20
many z-machine games have a ".dat" extension, which is too generic to be=20
useful. So I would prefer using the magic file, but my experiments in that=
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direction do not seem to work. Do I have to specify anything particular in=
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the mimetype.desktop file to trigger file examination?

The file command already has the rules needed to identify the files, and I=
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tried adapting them to the `kde-config --prefix`/share/mimelnk/magic
syntax, but that does not seem to work on its own.

[lots of interesting stuff deleted]

> Kat, which is told to be the working implementation of Tenor, or at least
> heads that way, *indeed* uses kfile plugins to extract meta info.
>

Interesting. So these plugins will get much more use in the future.
While writing one of the plugin I was a bit concerned with the fact that it=
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should not do too much. For stuff like the file tip, you do not want to sca=
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a multimegabyte file... but if it is used in a low priority batch, it could=
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extract more informations.

Luciano


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Luciano Montanaro //
                \X/ mikelima@cirulla.net

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