Version: 1.2.91 (using KDE 3.1.9) Compiler: gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB Hi! For some reason (not KDE related ?) MS-Word docoments are associated with Plugger 4.0. Opening them with Kword shows a list of unsorted mimetypes. IMHO they should be sorted alphabetically. cu ferdinand
No, you cannot sort the mime types alphabetically. (It has already be committed and then removed from CVS.) They are in order of directness. First all the KWord ones, then KPresenter (if I remember well) and so on. Sorting them means that you would have non-native (for example KPresenter) filters mixed up in between native ones (for example KWord.) Sure, you could tell that the filter system should be improved, including in usability. Have a nice day!
Subject: Re: sort mimetypes list if the mimetype is not recognized automatically On Thursday 19 June 2003 17:39, you wrote: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60050 > nicolasg@snafu.de changed: > > What |Removed |Added > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- Status|NEW |RESOLVED > Resolution| |WONTFIX > Summary|sort mimetypes list if the |sort mimetypes list if the > > |mimetype is not recognized |mimetype is not recognized > |automatically |automatically > > ------- Additional Comments From nicolasg@snafu.de 2003-06-19 17:39 > ------- No, you cannot sort the mime types alphabetically. (It has already > be committed and then removed from CVS.) > > They are in order of directness. First all the KWord ones, then KPresenter > (if I remember well) and so on. > > Sorting them means that you would have non-native (for example KPresenter) > filters mixed up in between native ones (for example KWord.) > > Sure, you could tell that the filter system should be improved, including > in usability. > > Have a nice day! I do not understand your reasoning - If I try to open a file with kword I hope that only filters which can be used by kword are displayed and IMHO these could/should be sorted without having the problem youe mentioned.
Sure, it would be better if the problems would not exist and would be fixed. Again some works for future version. (Sigh!) Good: I am re-opening this report (as bug this time), so that this problem does not get forgotten. And I am switching it to KOffice/General. Have a nice day!
Subject: Re: sort mimetypes list if the mimetype is not recognized automatically I believe Ferdinand is talking about the mimetype chooser dialog, and Nicolas (in #1 at least) was talking about the file dialog filter combobox. No time to test right now, but this patch might fix the ordering of the mimetype list in the mimetype chooser dialog: Index: koFilterManager.cc =================================================================== RCS file: /home/kde/koffice/lib/kofficecore/koFilterManager.cc,v retrieving revision 1.130 diff -u -p -r1.130 koFilterManager.cc --- koFilterManager.cc 19 Aug 2003 15:26:10 -0000 1.130 +++ koFilterManager.cc 27 Oct 2003 14:42:23 -0000 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ KoFilterChooser::KoFilterChooser (QWidge if (m_filterList->currentItem () == -1) m_filterList->setCurrentItem (0); + m_filterList->sort (); m_filterList->centerCurrentItem (); m_filterList->setFocus ();
Well, you still get the problems that you have mimetypes that are not usable. So when you sort it, the user has not even a chance anymore to know which ones are not usable, as those are not anymore after another KOffice application. The whole problem must be fixed much more below in the filter system to disallow that something like plain text will be used between KWord and KSpread. Nobody had the time to fix that for KOffice 1.3, so it is for 1.4. (I thought that the problem was well known, that is why I had selected WONTFIX. Now I see that I had made an error and should have done earlier what I have done now.) Have a nice day! PS.: Sigh^2: there is even an unknown mime type in this dialog!
*** Bug 87185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Absurd filter chain problems are now moved to bug #44256. Bug #87185 has been changed to be now a duplicate of bug #44256. This bug (#60050) depends on bug #44256 too. It must be solved first before the list can be sorted alphabetically. Have a nice day!
I am realizing that fixing bug #44256 is not enough. In KPresenter, you could have filters from KWord. The user should know that those filters are from KWord. (If the would be all sorted, nothing would differ a filter form another.) Have a nice day!
As far as I can tell this bug is still there (trunk r875799). On opening a file the filters are still unsorted. I only see filters suitable to the application I'm using though.
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