From kde-frameworks-devel  Tue Jun 09 23:38:45 2020
From: David Jarvie <djarvie () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 23:38:45 +0000
To: kde-frameworks-devel
Subject: Re: Opening files by mimetype instead of by file extension
Message-Id: <2382463.rLpqJTpt1n () stewjar>
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On Wednesday 10 Jun 2020 00:52:16 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> As far as I can see QFileDialog only supports listing by file extension.
> 
> On the other hand it seems in GTK+ land you can get an open file dialog
> listing by mimetype, so I've got one bug about "you're worse than XXX
> because you can't do this"
> 
> Is there something we could do at the KDE Frameworks level to support this
> feature?
> 
> Or should this be done in Qt?

KFileCustomDialog lists by mimetype.

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David Jarvie.
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