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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: File Properties...
From:       James Davies <james_m_davies () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-11-17 9:19:10
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:48, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On November 16, 2001 04:24 am, James Davies wrote:
> > In windows, when you right click and select properties on a file in
> > explorer, You get file properties. No surprise there. But it also allows
> > an application to create a custom property page... i.e. Office documents
> > have an extra info page. Photoshop files contain a preview and
> > description etc. This would be a great thing to impliment in KDE3... and
> > probably wouldnt be that hard with KParts. What does everyone think?
>
> i think you should right click on a kword document and select properties
> ;-)
>
> this functionality is already supported in KDE2.x. unfortunately, there
> aren't may "extra information page" plugins. they exist for koffice files
> and it is apparently somewhat trivial to add support for additional MIME
> types. perhaps this would be a great project for someone with time and
> wanting to get their feet wet in KDE devel?

I just created a KWord documet and selected properties. no extra info page. I 
am using 2.2.1 which is the latest stable release.

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