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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#2057: kfm tmp filenaming conventions
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-09-27 21:45:59
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On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:23:55PM -0700, Allen Crider wrote:
> Package: kfm 
> Version: 1.167.2.21
> 
> It is possible to right-click an item in an ftp directory and pass the
> requested file directly to Archiver. However, kfm/kio creates a file in
> the tmp directory but adds unique PID at the END of the filename, thus
> Archiver cannot understand the file format. Archiver expects gz or tgz
> etc. as the filename extension.
> 
> Prepending the unique PID, or creating a directory tmp/pid# would fix
> the problem.

This is half a kfm problem, half a ark one :)))
The usual idea in KDE is that extensions don't really matter,
since we can determine the file type anyway (with something
very similar to the "file" command).

kfm has to name the file in an unique way - imagine all the people
that can download a 00index.txt at the same time :)
Granted, it should use the ~/.kde dir, instead of /tmp, for that.
Will check in konqueror.

FX : can you make ark not depend on the extension of the archive ?
kio provides support for determining mimetypes, automatically calling
mimemagic when necessary, as you know. :)


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