In article 201111202237.25278.cycledaemon@youmano.com, Richard J.M. Hill trinity-devel@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
I have another non-technical observation... My gtkrc file contains two lines with the word class in them. Since I associate the word class with Java, I thought I would see what would happen if I deleted them from a copy of the gtkrc file. Surprise! Konqueror recognizes them as plain text! Even more interesting, is that if I delete only ONE line with the word class in it, it still works! Not only that, but it doesn't matter which of the two lines I delete!
Next, I thought I would add the word class to a file which Konqueror identified as plain text. If I added the word class to kpatrc twice Konqueror identified it as a Java file.
I wonder if Konqueror for Trinity could be made to use libmagic for its file type detection ?
There are a number of places where KDE "does its own thing" although standard and more modern libraries have come along since KDE was developed. SSL certificate management is another one, and one that particularly concerns me in the light of the number of certificate revocations lately.
If a modern, widely-available and maintained library does a better job than an old (small) internal library in TDE, a bug report should be filed as a feature request to use the new library.
Note that these bug reports may take a long time to resolve, depending on the size of the library to be replaced.
Tim