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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: WinWord and *.doc
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-02-23 11:57:13
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On Friday 23 February 2001 00:41, Nicolas GOUTTE wrote:

> 2. Konqueror Has The Same Goal
> 
> That is not true. Konqueror does not have the same goal than a file dialog. 
> A file dialog serves the application that has called it. This application 
> may have very different goals than Konqueror. Konqueror has the goal to 
> present the file and to be able to display it on demand. If the display is 
> a little wrong, it does not matter.
> You have an unknown XML file. For Konqueror, no problem, just display it 
> like any XML file. But in any serious application, you want to import this 
> file. And there it does matter, if this file is from KWord, is in the XML 
> version of DocBook, is a XHTML file or is a generic XML file. (But all 
> those are "application/xml".)

AH ! Took me 10 minutes to understand where this confusion is coming from.

I was talking about "Konqueror the file manager" and you were talking about
"Konqueror the web browser".

My point is:
if you have three files: MSWord.doc, textfile.doc and WordPerfect.doc,
Konqueror (the file manager !) will need to identify them correctly,
to open the right application if you click on them, and JUST THE SAME,
KOffice will need to be able to identify them correctly, to fire off the
right filter.

Hence the idea that KMimeMagic _is_ the solution (it's the only one,
we have to look into the files to make the difference), but it obviously
needs to be improved.

I would do that, but as long as kfiledialog doesn't use it, it's a bit pointless.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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