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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KFile plugins
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-10-16 14:57:16
Message-ID: 200510161257.28304.thiago () kde ! org
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Bernd Brandstetter wrote:
>On Sunday 16 October 2005 14:25, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
>> > > 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.h
>> >tml
>
>Hmm, I don't think so. Otherwise, how could Konqueror's "File Type"
> section show "C Header File", "C++ Header File", "Objective-C Header
> File" or sometimes simply "Mime Type" for files which all have the same
> extension ".h"?

It uses Magic only when the file type cannot be guessed from the file name 
pattern (not just the suffix, mind you). So a file ending in .h will be 
assumed to be a C header always.

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