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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: kfm and mimetypes
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-02-18 11:36:49
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On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 11:32:17AM +0000, Teodor Romeo Mihai wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:45:01PM -0500, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Teodor Romeo Mihai wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >a short issue concerning kfm and mimetypes:
> > > >
> > > >Right now there is no support in kdelibs for finding what applications
> > > >are associated with a certain mimetype; the original design was built
> > > >around kservice, but that is disabled (the code for initializing
> > > >kservices by scanning the kdelnk files, in KService::initStatic() is
> > > >commented out for some reason, even if it would work fine otherwise).
> > It's not disabled - it lets you call it when you want
> > 
> 
> The version I have (taken from the CVS, on the KDE 1.1 release date)
> looks like that:
> 
> void KService::initStatic()
> {
>   if ( !s_lstServices )
>     s_lstServices = new QList<KService>;
> 
>   /* // Read the application bindings in the local directories     
>   QString path = kapp->localkdedir().data();
>   path += "/share/applnk";
>   KService::initServices( path.data() );
> 
>   // Read the application bindings in the global directories
>   path = kapp->kde_appsdir().copy();
>   KService::initServices( path.data() ); */
> }

Same here.

> If the stuff above would not be commented, I could get a list of
> applications associated with a mimetype.

Did you read what I wrote ?

The stuff works, even with the bit above commented out. It works for
konqueror and it even works for koffice apps...

Create a Registry, add a KMimeTypeFactory to it, and try if it's enough
- I don't know since I didn't try and didn't get Torben's answer -
otherwise do the code like below :

> >       registry = new KRegistry;
> >       registry->addFactory( new KMimeTypeFactory );
> > 
> >       registry->load( "/tmp/whatever" );
> >       if ( registry->isModified() )
> >       {
> >           registry->save( "/tmp/whaveter" );
> >           registry->clearModified();
> >       }
> > 
> >       KMimeType::check();
> > 
> >       KMimeMagic::initStatic();
> > 
> > (code I took from konqueror and recently put in
> > kofficecore/koFilterManager)
> > Looks ugly, I know.
> > 
> > I wrote Torben but didn't get an answer yet.
> 
> I suppose I should download KDE again...
> 
> > 
> > --
> >  ____________________________________________________________________
> > |                                                                    |
> > |  David FAURE                                                       |
> > |  E-mail : David.Faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org                  |
> > |  http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html             |
> > |____________________________________________________________________|
> 
> 
> Regards,
>  teddy

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|  David FAURE                                                       |
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