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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KService and friends
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-04-15 11:48:34
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weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am now almost finished with my rewrite of these classes.
> 
> Who except for KOffice and Konquy does rely on more then
> dealing with mimetypes ?
> 
> Who is dealing at least with KMimeType and the magic mimtype
> detection ?
> 
> I wont to compile these apps in order to make shure that I
> dont break code.
> 
> For you information
> -------------------
> 
> The mapping from mimetypes to the default app in no longer in
> the mimetypes kdelnk file. That was a stupid idea, because for
> example StarOffice installed a users text/html mime type and suddenly
> staroffice was used for browsing
> 
> To avoid that to happen there will be a user profile. It assigns
> marks ( 0 - 10 ) to each application+mimetype combination.
> Default is 1.
> 
> 0 means: Dont ever use
> 10 means: The default. There may only be one with 10
> 
> Currently I store that in HOME/.kde/share/config/userprofile
> 
Isn't that what mimemap is for? Wouldn't it be a good idea to
integrate /etc/mimemap while doing this step?

Greetings, Stephan

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