'Re: Moving away from app-centric mimetypes (e.g. kword)'

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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Moving away from app-centric mimetypes (e.g. kword)
From:       Sean Pecor <sean () digitalspinner ! com>
Date:       2002-05-14 13:10:21
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On Sunday 12 May 2002 10:01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> But how could this be achieved?

Magic cookies are employed by the mime system, so that a particular unique 
sequence of bytes in the mime cookies file are matched against the file's 
contents. As an example, if you create a file called "guess.whoseewhatsit" 
containing the text "<html><body></body></html>" you should see the HTML icon 
next to the file in a konqueror file browser window, even though you haven't 
associated the extension "whoseewhatsit" with anything. 

Dave mentioned file previews, and I think he's right to do so. File previews 
are pretty useable, and as they improve they could solve your problem (for 
example, being able to define how large the preview is of kword documents, so 
you can see more of the layout and structure in order to gauge the content). 
However, icon preview performance may be pretty poor on a baseline machine. A 
delay isn't noticeable with any hardware considered state of the art within 
the past two years, but on an older machine file previews might be so slow 
that they need to be disabled.

Sean.

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