Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2003 21:29 schrieb David Pye: > If it's gzipped, how can KDE/Konq etc know what is INSIDE the gzip without > opening it? ie the mimetype will be the zip, not the pdf/ps file. So, it > gets opened with Ark. I fail to see how else it could work to be honest.
gzip is a streamable format, so finding out the mimetype gzip, unzipping the first couple of bytes and finding out the mimetype for _that_ is not even hard. If you want this feature, use the Bug Tracking System of KDE to issue a feature request. KDE Developers tend to adopt such thoughts ;) Thomas
