KImageIO::mimeTypes and SVG/SVGZ Files

Christoph Feck christoph at maxiom.de
Wed Aug 31 00:53:32 BST 2011


On Tuesday 30 August 2011 23:50:14 Martin Koller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my application I use KImageIO::mimeTypes to determine which
> formats I can load (e.g. the output of it is used in my .desktop
> file to fill in the MimeType definition).
> 
> However I see that obviously Qt can already (to some degree) load
> .svg and .svgz files, but KImageIO::mimeTypes does not return
> image/svg+xml
> image/svg+xml-compressed
> 
> The solution would be to add 2 new desktop files in kdelibs/kimgio
> (attached). This would automatically allow all image applications
> to also load these file types, as they are then allowed in the
> file selector as "supported format".
> 
> However, Qt can not load all SVG files correctly ...
> 
> Despite this fact, gwenview added these 2 MimeTypes as supported
> formats in the .desktop file, so I wonder if we can add these
> generally.
> 
> Opinions ?

I think you don't need to add the [x-test] lines, they are generated 
by scripty, as far as I know. Albert knows better.

Otherwise, no objections, people are still able to change application 
order, so that SVG is opened with Karbon or Inkscape.

Christoph Feck (kdepepo)
KDE Quality Team




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