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| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimedatabase.cpp | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimedatabase.cpp b/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimedatabase.cpp index c141eb9eb4..5acc290475 100644 --- a/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimedatabase.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimedatabase.cpp @@ -289,7 +289,12 @@ bool QMimeDatabasePrivate::inherits(const QString &mime, const QString &parent) /*! \fn QMimeDatabase::QMimeDatabase(); - Constructs this QMimeDatabase object. + Constructs a QMimeDatabase object. + + It is perfectly OK to create an instance of QMimeDatabase every time you need to + perform a lookup. + The parsing of mimetypes is done on demand (when shared-mime-info is installed) + or when the very first instance is constructed (when parsing XML files directly). */ QMimeDatabase::QMimeDatabase() : d(staticQMimeDatabase()) |