On Friday 19 March 2004 18:45, Clemens Wacha wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed KDE 3.2. A lot things got better. I totally like it. > But most of the problems still remain. > > Am Mit, den 17.03.2004 schrieb Nathan Toone um 16:30: > > > I.e. KDE Addressbook. Don't even think of trying to use the csv > > > importer. its totally useless to me because I cannot import my > > > adresses. > > The Addressbook did change alot. It look great now. It can import more > than one vcard at a time. But this still doesn't help me because I have > lots of names with umlauts (iso8859-1 charset). The addressbook doesnt > respect that. So it remains totally useless for me. Its usable for US > people.. the rest of the world still has to wait. Could be a wrong encoding of the csv file. The KAddressBook maintainer is a German IIRC, so I am pretty confident that it can handle umlauts :) > the addressbook doesn't properly import newlines that are "saved" within > "". I don't know of any standard about this but it must be a very stupid > standard if it doesn't allow you to use newlines between "". And don't > tell me that this is difficult to do in C/C++. I have written such > routines on my own more than one time. Hey don't get me wrong. I don't > say that the coder is stupid. He just didn't think of it when he wrote > the code. This happens very often. True. There is a mailinglist for KDE's PIM applications, kde-pim, most KDE PIM developers read it. > > > mime type detection might work for 95% of stupid newbies that never > > > change anything. I tried to add .sid Tunes and Gameboy roms. But its > > > not possible because both of them are recognized as octet-streams... > > > That might be true but they still have different file endings.. well > > > but konqi doesnt care.. hit is hit :-) > > > > [explanation of difference between MIME and file extensions] > > Yes I know all this. I am using computers since almost 15 years now. I > switched to linux 4 wears ago. Before that, I had MS-DOS, windows and > now i am also using Mac OSX at home. I am using Solaris at work. If you > want to detect a file type you can do it the lazy/fast way by looking at > the extension. You can also do it the save way by looking at the content > (which takes more time though). > > the Problem I have with kde is not my misunderstanding in filetype > recognition. It seems like KDE does the following: > 1. Check file stats (dir/file/pipe/whatever) > 2. if its a dir: say its a folder and stop > 3. if its a file: > * check mimetypes > * if no MIME Hits check extension > * if no extension hits say: Unknown file I think local files are first treated by their extension, the, if they have none, by their magic signature. Remote files depend on the transport protocol: if the protocol has MIME information, like HTTP does, it gets preference. So I think if you created a MIME entry for a new file extension it should work for local files. > [PDF troubles] > I have never heard of KPDF before. Mainly because there is no debian > package for it? KGhostview became much better in KDE 3.2. Rendering is I think it is pretty new and there will be a KPDF package in unstable (mabye it already is) > > > [Bug reports] > > > > It's a small price to pay for a free operating system and desktop > > environment. Besides, if you don't log the bugs, you dont' have a right > > to complain about them. It's kind of like voting - if you didn't vote, > > you don't have a right to complain about the current administration, > > because you didn't *DO* anything about it. (Now if you voted for someone > > else, you have all the right in the world to complain about it.) If you > > want to lend credibility to your complaints, you have to do everything > > you can do as well. > > You are right. First of all I didn't knew of kdes bug reporting tool. FYI Debian has a package for KBugBuster, a frontend for the bugzilla bug database. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum
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