On Thursday 09 January 2003 09:02, Ralf Nolden wrote: > 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.
Exactly. Mozilla is able to do that. If you click on references like <a href="xyz.pdf.gz">paper</a> then the document is first unzipped and then displayed in the embedded PDF viewer. > > > If you want this feature, use the Bug Tracking System of KDE to issue a > > > feature request. KDE Developers tend to adopt such thoughts ;) I thought that Konqueror already _has_ this feature and I only was to stupid to enable it? > > 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... It seems to be. Frank -- ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
