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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A great idea! (?)
From:       David Faure <faure () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-23 13:10:23
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On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:29:51PM +0200, Stefan van den Oord wrote:
> >> > In other words, in the mime type properties, you should be able to
> >> > provide a file type or sample to which the type belongs.
> >A sample ??
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I cannot post to kde-devel, so I have to reply to you directly.
> 
> I mean that when you create a new mime type, you could provide a file
> as a sample of the type of files you want to bind. So if you want to
> bind TAR-GZ files (but to their type, not their extension), you
> would select a TAR-GZ file. 
This is not enough for mime-magic to work !!
Have a look at the 'magic' file...

> Same for all other files. You're right
> that I can type "application/text" in the mime type field, but that
> is hardly user-friendly.
There is a GUI for this, you don't have to type anything.


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