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some things

Well I went and ported kfile_torrent to be a Strigi analyzer so that the .torrent info metadata is available in KDE 4 now. Unfortunately although KFileMetaInfo has apparently been ported to use Strigi no metadata shows up for me in Dolphin. Maybe it will when I enable Nepomuk perhaps, kind of unfortunate that a feature more or less from KDE 2 is still unavailable though :-/

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Documentation KIOSlaves

KDE has long had a nice collection of useful kioslaves for viewing installed documentation, including viewers for manpages and info pages (used by GNU software).

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.desktop file security

As most of you may have seen by now, foobar had made a post 10 days ago called “How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps.” That blog post was later covered on Slashdot and LWN, and describes the lack of security around .desktop launcher files. These .desktop files do lots of things, but one of their most prominent uses is in program launching.

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