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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Files in use ...
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1999-02-05 13:58:13
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Hi,

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote:

> Matt Koss wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to implement this the way some download managers are doing.
> > I have already started some work on this.
> > 
> > These managers add to all currently downloaded files another extension, like
> > ..part for example ( partial download )
> > This way you know, that file has not been yet fully downloaded.
> > After that it will put this extension away.
> > 
> > We could easily use new mime-type for .part files ( with a new icon etc. )
> But there are two problems with this:
> 1. When netscape (and many others, including many ftps) download files, they
> down't use .part.
> 2. If possible, it should display a different icon for .tgz.part files,
> .ps.part files, etc... Can this be done with one mime type, or do all of the
> mime types need to be duplicated?
> 

One could hack libkio to strip off ".part" before it looks at the file
extension.

Bye
Torben

.... it is just a problem of finding all places in libkio ....

> Regards,
> Yannai.
> 
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