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On Sunday 16 October 2005 13:11, Fred Schaettgen wrote:
> 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

I think I have read this document, but in some way, I managed to miss the=20
section on the magic file. Just to be sure, it means that only files withou=
t=20
an extension (or with an unrecognized extension) are scanned to recognize=20
their mime type.

The problem is that there is a number of file types which have a generic=20
extension, like "iff" or "ogg" for iff files and ogg (vorbis or theora)=20
files, which could be bound in general to quite different types of=20
applications.

So maybe there should be a way for a mimetype .desktop file to ask for the=
=20
file to be scanned explicitely.

Luciano

>
> Fred

=2D-=20
Luciano Montanaro //
                \X/ mikelima@cirulla.net

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