Bug 191463

Summary:	File Extensions for Entries in the KControl File Types Module does not process Regular Expressions and is Case Sensitive
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jakub Sadowski <JakubSadowski>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jakub Sadowski 2007-09-06 04:36:56 UTC

When creating/modifying entries in the File Types module of KControl, one is forced to enter all combinations of uppercase/lowercase letters for each file type so that all permutations are recognized in KDE.  The module also does not allow recognize the use of regular expressions to make this task easier.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Clear all file-extension entries in a file-type entry in KControl so that the icon changes to a more general type in Konqueror when browsing.  A good example is clearing the "*.avi;*.AVI" extensions for the default first entry in the video category and the file type is then represented with a speaker icon.
2.Add the "*.avi", "*.AVI", "*.[Aa][Vv][Ii]" extension entries for the type.
3.View a file listing in konqueror that includes "AVI" files and click the reload button.
4. Rename one of the files to [filename].aVi, [filename].Avi, etc... and click reload in konqueror.
Actual Results:  
Video icons appear for the files in step 3.
A speaker icon appears for the file in step 4.

Expected Results:  
File should still be recognized with a video icon as the regular expression should be processed (or at the very least the extension should be recognized in a case-insensitive manner).

Confirmed using KDE 3.5.7 with kdelibs-3.5.7-r2 and kcontrol-3.5.7-r1.

Comment 1 Jakub Sadowski 2007-09-06 04:38:11 UTC

The (not-so-trivial) workaround is, of course, to create all combinations of uppercase/lowercase letters in the file-extension entries.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-06 07:03:14 UTC

Could you please clarify why's this a Gentoo bug, as opposed to a feature request that belongs upstream?

Comment 3 Wulf Krueger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-27 20:30:42 UTC

Please file an upstream bug at http://bugs.kde.org and post its URL here.

Comment 4 Jakub Sadowski 2007-10-25 02:58:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Please file an upstream bug at http://bugs.kde.org and post its URL here.
> 

There we go:  http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151312