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<sect2 id="nsplugins">
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<title>&Netscape; Plugins</title>
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<sect3 id="nsplugins-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>As &Netscape;'s <application>Navigator</application> has been a
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web browsing standard for many years, so-called &Netscape; plugins have
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appeared that allow rich web content. Using those plugins, web sites
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can contain <acronym>PDF</acronym> files, flash animations, video, &etc;
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With &konqueror;, you can still use these plugins to take advantage of
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rich web content.</para>
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<note><para>&Netscape; plugins should not be confused with &konqueror;
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plugins. The latter ones specifically extend &konqueror;'s
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functionality; they are normally not used to display rich web
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content.</para></note>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="nsplugins-scan">
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<title>Scan</title>
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<para>&konqueror; has to know where your &Netscape; plugins are
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installed. This can be in several places, &ie; you might have
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system-wide plugins in <filename
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class="directory">/opt/netscape/plugins</filename> and your personal
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plugins in <filename
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class="directory">$<envar>HOME</envar>/.netscape/plugins</filename>.
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However, &konqueror; will not automatically use the installed plugins:
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it first has to scan a list of folders. You can initiate the scan
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by clicking <guibutton>Scan for new plugins</guibutton>. Alternatively,
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you can enable <guilabel>Scan for new plugins at &kde; startup</guilabel>
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so &konqueror; will scan the appropriate folders every time &kde;
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starts up, to see whether new plugins have been installed.</para>
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<note><para>Enabling <guilabel>Scan for new plugins at &kde;
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startup</guilabel> can considerably slow down the startup procedure,
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and is known to give difficulty on certain installations. Turn this
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option off if you experience problems.</para></note>
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<para>To find plugins, &konqueror; will look in the folders
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specified in the <guilabel>Scan Folders</guilabel> frame. When you
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use this control module for the first time, this list will already be
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filled with reasonable paths that should work on most operating systems.
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If you need to provide a new path, click the <guibutton>New</guibutton>
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button; then you can either enter the new path in the text edit box to
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the left, or choose a folder using the file dialog by clicking the
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<guibutton>New...</guibutton> button. As scanning the folders can take
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a little time, you might want to remove folders from the list where
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you know that no plugins are installed: do this by selecting a folder
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and clicking <guibutton>Remove</guibutton>. Using the
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<guibutton>Up</guibutton> and <guibutton>Down</guibutton> buttons you
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can change the order in which folders will be scanned by moving the
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selected folder up or down.</para>
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<para>As usual, click <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> to save your changes
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permanently.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="nsplugins-plugins">
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<title>Plugins</title>
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<para>In this tab, you can see a list of the &Netscape; plugins found by
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&konqueror;, displayed as a tree. Double click on a plugin to fold it
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out and you'll see that the different mime types this plugin can handle
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will be displayed as branches. Fold out a mime type to see its
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info.</para>
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<para>This tab is mostly for informational purposes. The only
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configurable option is <guilabel>Use artsdsp to pipe plugin sound
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through aRts</guilabel>, which is enabled by default. Disable this if
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you wish plugins to use their own method for sounds, and you have
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configured &arts; in such a way that third-party applications can do
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so (for example, by having it exit when idle, or by having it use a
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custom sound device on modern soundcards which allow this.)</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="nsplugins-author">
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<title>Section Author</title>
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<para>This section written by: Jost Schenck
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<email>jost@schenck.de</email></para>
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<!-- TRANS:CREDIT_FOR_TRANSLATORS -->
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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