5 <author>&Pamela.Roberts;</author>
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9 <date>2002-09-22</date>
10 <releaseinfo>3.1</releaseinfo>
14 <title>Plugins</title>
16 <sect1 id="netscape-plugin">
17 <title>&Netscape; Plugins</title>
19 <para>Currently, &konqueror; supports &Netscape; 4.x plugins.</para>
21 <para>Selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guisubmenu>
22 Configure Konqueror...</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Plugins</guimenuitem>
23 </menuchoice> will give you a dialog box with two tabbed pages;
24 <guilabel>Scan</guilabel> and <guilabel>Plugins</guilabel>.</para>
26 <para>The <guilabel>Scan</guilabel> page controls how &kde; scans for new
27 &Netscape; plugins, either manually by pressing the <guibutton>Scan for New
28 Plugins</guibutton> button or automatically each time &kde; starts up.</para>
30 <para>The scan is done by looking through the folders listed in the
31 <guilabel>Scan Folders</guilabel> list for <literal
32 role="extension">.so</literal> files containing plugin code. It examines every
33 such file to find out which <acronym>MIME</acronym> types the plugin
34 supports. It then creates <acronym>MIME</acronym> type definitions for &kde; in
35 the user's <filename class="directory"> ~/.kde/share/mimelnk</filename>
36 folder to make other applications aware of them.</para>
38 <para>The <guilabel>Plugins</guilabel> page shows you the &Netscape; plugins
39 that &kde; has found, and for each plugin it lists the <acronym>MIME</acronym>
40 types and the filename suffixes it uses to recognize them.</para>
42 <para>The dialog box also contains a checkbox <guilabel>
43 Enable plugins globally</guilabel> which you can use to enable or disable
44 plugins that can be contained in <acronym>HTML</acronym> pages (these can
45 be considered a security risk).</para>
49 <sect1 id="konq-plugin">
50 <title>&konqueror; Plugins</title>
52 <para>The package kdeaddons contains several useful plugins that interact with
53 &konqueror; in various ways. These are explained briefly below, more detailed
54 information may be obtained by looking through the <guimenuitem>Konqueror
55 Plugins</guimenuitem> section in the &kde; Help Center.</para>
60 <term>Web Page Translation</term>
61 <listitem><para>This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current
62 <acronym>HTML</acronym> page to whatever language you want (within reason). It
63 can be launched with <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Translate
64 Web Page</guisubmenu></menuchoice>.</para></listitem>
68 <term>Folder View Filter</term>
69 <listitem><para>This is controlled by
70 <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>View
71 Filter</guisubmenu></menuchoice> and allows you to choose which types of item
72 are displayed in a folder.</para></listitem>
76 <term>DOM Tree Viewer</term>
77 <listitem><para>Selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Show
78 DOM Tree</guisubmenu></menuchoice> opens a new window which displays the
79 document object model (DOM) of the current <acronym>HTML</acronym>
80 page.</para></listitem>
84 <term>HTML Validator</term>
85 <listitem><para>This is started with
86 <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Validate Web
87 Page</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Validate HTML</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. It
88 uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when
89 creating web pages.</para></listitem>
93 <term>CSS Validator</term>
94 <listitem><para>Started with
95 <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Validate Web
96 Page</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Validate CSS</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, it uses
97 the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style
98 Sheets.</para></listitem>
102 <term>HTML Settings</term>
103 <listitem><para>Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>HTML
104 Settings</guisubmenu></menuchoice> to enable or disable a number of HTML
105 settings without going through the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> dialog.
110 <term>Image Gallery</term>
111 <listitem><para>In File Manager mode, you can select
112 <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Create Image
113 Gallery</guisubmenu></menuchoice> to create an HTML page with
114 thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. By default the HTML page
115 is called <filename>images.html</filename> and the thumbnails are put into a
116 new <filename>thumbs</filename> folder.
121 <term>User Agent Changer</term>
122 <listitem><para>Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Change
123 Browser Identification</guisubmenu></menuchoice> to get a menu that allows
124 you to change the User Agent string without going through the <guimenu>Settings
125 </guimenu> dialog procedure.
130 <term>Archive Web Page</term>
131 <listitem><para>Invoked with <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>
132 Archive Web Page</guisubmenu></menuchoice>, this tool creates an archive
133 (<literal role="extension">.war</literal> ) file containing the web page being
134 viewed including the images. <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on the
135 archive file name to view the saved page.
140 <term>Navigation Panel Media Player</term>
141 <listitem><para>This is a simple media player, embedded as a tab page in the
142 Navigation Panel. You can drag songs or videos onto this page to play them.
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