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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 154698] Won't open some TIFF files
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-12-28 1:43:26
Message-ID: 20071228014326.GD3715 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 27.12.07 20:38:59, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Thursday 27 December 2007 08:24:43 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> <snip>
> > You see there's simply no way for okular to "fix" this, apart from
> > reading the file, then using KMimeType::findByContent() on the binary
> > data and then choosing the backend based on the result. However this
> > means reading the file from disk 2 times, which is quite some overhead
> > and should be thought about really well.
> >
> > Andreas
> 
> Couldn't it call KMimeType::findByContent() after it fails to load a file 
> based on KMimeType's wrong initial guess? That way the overhead is only there 
> if okular fails to load a file.

Well, thats the part that Pino has to comment on, but I'd consider that
a design flaw in Okular if it can't be done.

Andreas

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