On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > The short version > > Is there a way to offer plasma applet creation based on mimetypes of > content dropped onto Plasma also for URLS? > > [...] > > I'd like to have this fine mechanism also working URLs and be a bit > smarter about that. I'm not sure about possible solutions, though. > Guessing based on the dropped content would work for most cases (akonadi: > as protocol is clear), but might be a bit tedious (impossible) to figure > out for every mimetype in the world (especially if you start doing it > based on file extensions). Probing mimetypes of remote files sounds icky > to me as well. Maybe there is some code for this problem in KDE already?
KProtocolInfo [1] comes to my mind, which is used (iirc) by e.g. Konqueror (Dolphin?) to determine whether a url is listable (in terms of file listings), readable, etc. ...but this sounds as if you need much more. Dominik [1] http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKProtocolInfo.html _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
