dropping content onto Plasma

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > The above procedure works nicely for local content, such as files. URL's
> > are a special kind of draggable content though. As far as I understand, a
> > URL doesn't have a mimetype attached, it's either data + mimetype (+
> > other metainformation) or simply a URL.
>
> hmm i don't see any ways beside on dropevent on the containment trying to
> download the url and see what it does contain (for http the header of the
> response would suffice, for other urls like akonadi: i have no idea)

for urls like akonadi and other similar special protocols we could offer a 
"protocol interpreter" that would decide what the content is by looking at the 
url. obviously, this is pretty hard with something like http, but i hope and 
imagine that akonadi urls are well formed and can be deduced as to their 
content by just looking at the url. we don't want to build these into plasma, 
obviously, so something in kdelibs (KMimeType?) or piggybacking on the applet 
plugin system might be workable ...

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