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<authorgroup>
<author
>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author>
<author
>&Yves.Arrouye; &Yves.Arrouye.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>John</firstname
><surname
>Knight</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
>
</authorgroup>
<date
>2002-10-16</date>
<releaseinfo
>3.1</releaseinfo>
<keywordset>
<keyword
>KDE</keyword>
<keyword
>KControl</keyword>
<keyword
>enhanced browsing</keyword>
<keyword
>web shortcuts</keyword>
<keyword
>browsing</keyword>
</keywordset>
</articleinfo>
<sect1 id="ebrowse">
<title
>Web Shortcuts</title>
<sect2 id="ebrowse-intro">
<title
>Introduction</title>
<para
>&konqueror; offers some features to enhance your browsing experience. One such feature is <emphasis
>Web Shortcuts</emphasis
>.</para>
<para
>You may already have noticed that &kde; is very Internet friendly. For example, you can click on the <guimenuitem
>Run</guimenuitem
> menu item or type the keyboard shortcut assigned to that command (<keycombo action="simul"
><keycap
>Alt</keycap
><keycap
>F2</keycap
></keycombo
>, unless you have changed it) and type in a <acronym
>URI</acronym
>. <footnote
><para
>Uniform Resource Identifier. A standard way of referring to a resource such as a file on your computer, a World Wide Web address, an email address, <abbrev
>etc...</abbrev
>.</para
></footnote
></para>
<para
>Web shortcuts, on the other hand, let you come up with new pseudo <acronym
>URL</acronym
> schemes, or shortcuts, that basically let you <emphasis
>parameterise</emphasis
> commonly used <acronym
>URI</acronym
>s. For example, if you like the Google search engine, you can configure KDE so that a pseudo <acronym
>URL</acronym
> scheme like <emphasis
>gg</emphasis
> will trigger a search on Google. This way, typing <userinput
>gg:<replaceable
>my query</replaceable
></userinput
> will search for <replaceable
>my query</replaceable
> on Google.</para>
<note
><para
>One can see why we call these pseudo <acronym
>URL</acronym
> schemes. They are used like a <acronym
>URL</acronym
> scheme, but the input is not properly <acronym
>URL</acronym
> encoded, so one will type <userinput
>google:kde apps</userinput
> and not <userinput
>google:kde+apps</userinput
>.</para
></note>
<para
>You can use web shortcuts wherever you would normally use <acronym
>URI</acronym
>s. Shortcuts for several search engines should already be configured on your system, but you can add new keywords and change or delete existing ones in the enhanced browsing control module. </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ebrowse-use">
<title
>Use</title>
<para
>There is a single tab in this control module. The title of the tab is <guilabel
>Keywords</guilabel
>. This tab features two main boxes, one for Internet Keywords and one for web shortcuts.</para>
<sect3 id="ebrowse-srch-use">
<title
>Web Shortcuts</title>
<para
>The descriptive names of defined web shortcuts are shown in a listbox. As with other lists in &kde;, you can click on a column heading to toggle the sort order between ascending and descending, and you can resize the columns.</para>
<para
>If you double-click on a specific entry in the list of defined search providers, the details for that entry are shown in a popup dialogue. In addition to the descriptive name for the item, you can also see the <acronym
>URI</acronym
> which is used, as well as the associated shortcuts which you can type anywhere in &kde; where <acronym
>URI</acronym
>s are expected. A given search provider can have multiple shortcuts, each separated by a comma.</para>
<para
>The text boxes are used not only for displaying information about an item in the list of web shortcuts, but also for modifying or adding new items.</para>
<para
>You can change the contents of either the <guilabel
>Search URI</guilabel
> or the <guilabel
>URI Shortcuts</guilabel
> text box. Click <guibutton
>OK</guibutton
> to save your changes or <guibutton
>Cancel</guibutton
> to exit the dialogue with no changes.</para>
<para
>If you examine the contents of the <guilabel
>Search URI</guilabel
> text box, you will find that most, if not all of the entries have a <option
>\{@}</option
> in them. This sequence of two characters acts as a parameter, which is to say that they are replaced by whatever you happen to type after the colon character that is between a shortcut and its parameter. Let's consider some examples to clarify this idea.</para>
<para
>Suppose that the <acronym
>URI</acronym
> is <userinput
>http://www.google.com/search?q=\{@}</userinput
>, and <userinput
>gg</userinput
> is a shortcut to this <acronym
>URI</acronym
>. Then, typing <userinput
>gg:<replaceable
>alpha</replaceable
></userinput
> is equivalent to <userinput
>http://www.google.com/search?q=<replaceable
>alpha</replaceable
></userinput
>. You could type anything after the <userinput
>:</userinput
> character; whatever you have typed simply replaces the <option
>\{@}</option
> characters, after being converted to the appropriate character set for the search provider and then properly <acronym
>URL</acronym
>-encoded. Only the <option
>\{@}</option
> part of the search <acronym
>URI</acronym
> is touched, the rest of it is supposed to be properly <acronym
>URL</acronym
>-encoded already and is left as is.</para>
<para
>You can also have shortcuts without parameters. Suppose the <acronym
>URI</acronym
> was <emphasis
>file:/home/me/mydocs/kofficefiles/kword</emphasis
> and the shortcut was <emphasis
>mykword</emphasis
>. Then, typing <userinput
>mykword:</userinput
> is the same as typing the complete <acronym
>URI</acronym
>. Note that there is nothing after the colon when typing the shortcut, but the colon is still required in order for the shortcut to be recognised as such.</para>
<para
>By now, you will have understood that even though these shortcuts are called web shortcuts, they really are shortcuts to parameterised <acronym
>URI</acronym
>s, which can point not only to web sites like search engines but also to anything else that can be pointed to by a <acronym
>URI</acronym
>. Web shortcuts are a very powerful feature of navigation in &kde;.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</article>
