&Pamela.Roberts;
2002-09-22
3.1
Plugins
&Netscape; Plugins
Currently, &konqueror; supports &Netscape; 4.x plugins.
Selecting Settings
Configure Konqueror...Plugins
will give you a dialog box with two tabbed pages;
Scan and Plugins.
The Scan page controls how &kde; scans for new
&Netscape; plugins, either manually by pressing the Scan for New
Plugins button or automatically each time &kde; starts up.
The scan is done by looking through the folders listed in the
Scan Folders list for .so files containing plugin code. It examines every
such file to find out which MIME types the plugin
supports. It then creates MIME type definitions for &kde; in
the user's ~/.kde/share/mimelnk
folder to make other applications aware of them.
The Plugins page shows you the &Netscape; plugins
that &kde; has found, and for each plugin it lists the MIME
types and the filename suffixes it uses to recognize them.
The dialog box also contains a checkbox
Enable plugins globally which you can use to enable or disable
plugins that can be contained in HTML pages (these can
be considered a security risk).
&konqueror; Plugins
The package tdeaddons contains several useful plugins that interact with
&konqueror; in various ways. These are explained briefly below, more detailed
information may be obtained by looking through the Konqueror
Plugins section in the &kde; Help Center.
Web Page Translation
This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current
HTML page to whatever language you want (within reason). It
can be launched with ToolsTranslate
Web Page.
Folder View Filter
This is controlled by
ToolsView
Filter and allows you to choose which types of item
are displayed in a folder.
DOM Tree Viewer
Selecting ToolsShow
DOM Tree opens a new window which displays the
document object model (DOM) of the current HTML
page.
HTML Validator
This is started with
ToolsValidate Web
PageValidate HTML. It
uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when
creating web pages.
CSS Validator
Started with
ToolsValidate Web
PageValidate CSS, it uses
the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style
Sheets.
HTML Settings
Select ToolsHTML
Settings to enable or disable a number of HTML
settings without going through the Settings dialog.
Image Gallery
In File Manager mode, you can select
ToolsCreate Image
Gallery to create an HTML page with
thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. By default the HTML page
is called images.html and the thumbnails are put into a
new thumbs folder.
User Agent Changer
Select ToolsChange
Browser Identification to get a menu that allows
you to change the User Agent string without going through the Settings
dialog procedure.
Archive Web Page
Invoked with Tools
Archive Web Page, this tool creates an archive
(.war ) file containing the web page being
viewed including the images. Left click on the
archive file name to view the saved page.
Navigation Panel Media Player
This is a simple media player, embedded as a tab page in the
Navigation Panel. You can drag songs or videos onto this page to play them.