> In article <201111202237.25278.cycledaemon@...>, > Richard J.M. Hill <trinity-devel@...> wrote: >>I have another non-technical observation... My gtkrc file contains two >>lines with the word class in them. Since I associate the word class >>with Java, I thought I would see what would happen if I deleted them >>from a copy of the gtkrc file. Surprise! Konqueror recognizes them as >>plain text! Even more interesting, is that if I delete only ONE line >>with the word class in it, it still works! Not only that, but it doesn't >>matter which of the two lines I delete! >> >>Next, I thought I would add the word class to a file which Konqueror >>identified as plain text. If I added the word class to kpatrc twice >>Konqueror identified it as a Java file. > > I wonder if Konqueror for Trinity could be made to use libmagic for its > file type detection ? > > There are a number of places where KDE "does its own thing" although > standard and more modern libraries have come along since KDE was > developed. SSL certificate management is another one, and one that > particularly concerns me in the light of the number of certificate > revocations lately. > If a modern, widely-available and maintained library does a better job than an old (small) internal library in TDE, a bug report should be filed as a feature request to use the new library. Note that these bug reports may take a long time to resolve, depending on the size of the library to be replaced. Tim