-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2003 07:56, Mark Purcell wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:40, Thomas Ritter wrote: > > 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 ;) > > Actually this feature is already documented as being provided in KDE.. > The gzip kioslave description in 'Info Center' states that it will already > behave in the desired fashion. I myself have wondered how you actually get > this working. Should we file a bug against the kioslave description as > well?
Hm, it has something to do with the way the mimetypes treat files. It obviously gives ark more precedence over the ioslave... Ralf > Mark > > > gzip > > gzip is a compression program > > The gzip kioslave is not directly usable, and is intended for use as a > filter. For example, the tar kioslave can filter a file through the gzip > kioslave, in order to display the contents of a tar.gz file directly in a > Konqueror window. > > If you click on a file compressed with a gz extension in Konqueror, this > kioslave is used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed) > file. > > If you are a developer, and would like to use the gzip filter, you can find > documentation on using kioslaves at http://developer.kde.org > > See the manual: gzip. - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+HSyvu0nKi+w1Ky8RAofaAJ4sneRd13R6bfdx28GIl5rhxTfjcwCeMOM+ rqUlPpHOKPST455ZZHqo/Xk= =QSOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
