octet-stream

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 13:34, Benjamin Rossen wrote:
> Thanks Nicolas
>
> I worked. Can I be sure that I haven't destroyed some kind of
> functionality;

Yes.
The files in a user's .kde only override the setting of the global ones, so 
deleting a file there reverts the settings an application sees to the KDE 
default ones.
Problematic would only be a MIME type you added manually which is not present 
in the KDE defaults.

> the ability to run a bin file from an e-mail attachment, for 
> example (although from the point of security, that might not be a bad
> thing)?

No, application/octet-stream is only needed as a base type that always 
applies.
It has no actions associated to it.
The base type for executables (both binaries and shellscripts) is 
application/x-executable.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
www.mrunix.de - German Unix/Linux programming forum
www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum
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