Bug#990636: qgis not listed as file browser alternative for opening kml files

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]
> Are you sure qgis supports opening KML?

Yes.

> When I open one of the example KML files from libkml-dev with qgis it
> shows an Invalid Data Source error.

Right.  The KML file I work on was detected as such, and qgis showed the
point placemarks (but not the MultiGeometry/Polygon placemarks :).
This make me believe qgis understand KML at a useful level.

Looked for official documentation on qgis and kml, but failed.
<URL: http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/qgis/import/kml/ > provide some
insights, though.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen