Re: Konqueror: Embedding of packed documents
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
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