Bill Allombert writes: >> > Also that does not address why KDE need its own mime-magic >> > system. Why not using the /etc/mime-magic file ? >> >> Because the existing system was not sufficient. KDE apps ( like >> e.g. kolf ) need to be able to install a file which contains some >> more data for the magic system. It would not be a good idea ( >> imho, hope you agree with me on this ) to let them each edit the >> /etc/magic file. The KDE system allows this by letting them put a >> *.magic file in $kde_prefix/config/magic/ or /etc/kde3/magic/ or >> ~/.kde/config/magic/. >> >> I do disagree with your point about KDE not needing its own >> mime-magic system. It would of course be better if it would use a >> general mime-magic system, but I'm currently not aware of any such >> things or whatever, that provide the functionality described above.
> KDE need a mime-magic system. But it don't need to be private to > KDE. I mean, it make sense to configure KDE and GNOME to use > different programs for the same mime-type but not to see the same > file with two different mime-type. > It would make a lot of sense to add mime-magic support to > mime-support. Hi, people have been talking about this on xdg-list ( the mailing list where the FreeDesktop.org effort occurs ). Here is the proposed specification ( not yet released, AFAICT ): http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info-spec/ >> > Does the kolf magic file required to be a config files ? If not, >> > why not drop it under a directory that is not in /etc ? >> >> I'm not sure about this issue ( I can see how it's not a >> user-editable config file, and thus it might not belong in /etc ( >> what are the criteria exactly ? As I see it, there are lots of >> things in /etc that don't really belong there ), but I'm not sure >> how technically possible it is to put it elsewhere ). > If you support both $kde_prefix/config/magic/ and /etc/kde3/magic/, > I don't see why kolf magic cannot go in $kde_prefix/config/magic. The problem is that I'm not sure $kde_prefix/config/magic is supported. I'm inclined to think it isn't, as the kde packages are configured with kde_confdir=/etc/kde3, which I think overrides the other dir, but I'll recheck this. > In fact I am not sure why /etc/kde3/magic/ need to be a directory if > $kde_prefix/config/magic/ for application plug-in. Agreed, so you would suggest to parse $kde_prefix/config/magic/*.magic and /etc/magic only ? Again, I'm not sure how easy this is to implement, but I'll try to look into it. cheers domi
