From kde-devel  Sun Oct 16 11:11:58 2005
From: Fred Schaettgen <kde.sch () ttgen ! net>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:11:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KFile plugins
Message-Id: <200510161311.58935.kde.sch () ttgen ! net>
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Egon Willighagen wrote:

> On Sunday 16 October 2005 00:49, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
>> By the way, currently, all my mime types rely on the extension to
>> recognize the file content. This is not satisfactory, since, for example,
>> many z-machine games have a ".dat" extension, which is too generic to be
>> useful. So I would prefer using the magic file, but my experiments in
>> that direction do not seem to work. Do I have to specify anything
>> particular in the mimetype.desktop file to trigger file examination?
> 
> Does KDE use this mechanism at all?

Sure it does, otherwise it wouldn't be able to recognize files without 
extension. But AFAIK the magic is not meant to be extended: 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/mime.html

Fred

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