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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Thoughts about the "Open document" dialog
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-01-15 11:09:51
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 01:09, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > Yes, this often happens due to keywords in the file. Thanks for saying so,
> > some people here wanted to make everything rely on the "magic".
> > Hmm, however I'm always happy to fix KMimeMagic, so I'll have a look at
> > that one.
> >
> No file type detection system will ever be perfect.  I just don't like 
> "magic" :) and would prefer the broken 3-letter extension ways of Windows 
> (just my opinion :)).

KDE is using both. The extension when available, the magic when not.
Note that you're the one who named your file "IMPERFECT" instead of e.g. 
imperfect.txt ;)

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