KDE Developers don't test their own programs...

[Clemens Wacha]

Am Fre, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Nathan Toone um 19:21:
> >
> > So what? The computer is my servant. It has to assist me as good as
> > possible. Maybe the user WANTs to change the filetype.. so why make it
> > more difficult than needed?
> 
> I still don't understand why you would want to change a MIME type...a file is 
> what it is.  You can open it with different applications - but that still 
> doesn't change what it is.  An image is an image no matter what - you can 
> open it in different programs (and using the kontrol center, you can 
> configure what the default program is), but it's still an image.

I don't know why I want to change it. But why make it impossible only
because you cannot think of any purpose? :-)

Automatisms are great as long as they do exactly what they should. But
they are getting a huge clutch if they don't work and if you cannot
disable them.. filetype recognition is one of those..

Regards

-- 
Clemens Wacha           wacha at gmx.ch           ICQ:12620942

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