dropping content onto Plasma

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:24:11 Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > The short version
> >
> > Is there a way to offer plasma applet creation based on mimetypes of
> > content dropped onto Plasma also for URLS?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I'd like to have this fine mechanism also working URLs and be a bit
> > smarter about that. I'm not sure about possible solutions, though.
> > Guessing based on the dropped content would work for most cases (akonadi:
> > as protocol is clear), but might be a bit tedious (impossible) to figure
> > out for every mimetype in the world (especially if you start doing it
> > based on file extensions). Probing mimetypes of remote files sounds icky
> > to me as well. Maybe there is some code for this problem in KDE already?
>
> KProtocolInfo [1] comes to my mind, which is used (iirc) by e.g. Konqueror
> (Dolphin?) to determine whether a url is listable (in terms of file
> listings), readable, etc. ...but this sounds as if you need much more.

Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look at KProtocolInfo.
-- 
sebas

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