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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KFile plugins
From:       Egon Willighagen <e.willighagen () science ! ru ! nl>
Date:       2005-10-16 15:38:01
Message-ID: 200510161738.01651.e.willighagen () science ! ru ! nl
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On Sunday 16 October 2005 16:57, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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 

Mmmm...

> (not just the suffix, mind you). 

Interesting statement... How would 'bla.h' help?

> So a file ending in .h will be assumed to be a C header always.

What if some other program uses this extension too? I don't know other mime 
types that use *.h, but have seen other clashes... (think of .log)

extension -> mime type is not the option KDE (4.0) should aim at... IMHO

Egon

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