Not existing Calligra mimetypes?

C. Boemann cbo at boemann.dk
Thu May 10 19:03:10 BST 2012


On Thursday 10 May 2012 20:00:17 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while looking while calligrathumbnail does not work for me I saw some
> strange mimetype ids which I suspect to have ever been used. Perhaps some
> artifacts from the Calligra split/program renaming?
> 
> 	application/vnd.kde.words
> 	application/x-words
> 	application/x-flow
> 
> 
> "application/vnd.kde.words" is not found on the internet (besides KDE
> translation messages), so seems an experimental mimetype only left over
> just in "KWDLoader::load(...)".
> 
> "application/x-words" looks like an over-ambitious renaming from
> "application/x-kword", before ODF was chosen as native format before the
> ever first release of Calligra Words. This also seems just a made-up
> mimetype with no real format behind, right? I even guess it should be
> reverted to "application/x-kword" everywhere, so Words is able to load
> KWord files again?
> 
Words is not and will never be able to read kword files so those mimetypes 
should be removed instead

> For "application/x-flow" I found this thread:
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/calligra-devel/2010-December/000422.html
> 
> So there is no such format "application/x-flow", right? And I also see no
> filter able to read old Kivio files. So everything with
> "application/x-flow" and "application/x-kivio" needs to be
> removed/corrected, right?
> 
> Will start to work on a patch if you can confirm my assumptions :)
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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