<chapter id="plugins">

<chapterinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Pamela.Roberts;</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
>2002-09-22</date
> <releaseinfo
>3.1</releaseinfo
> </chapterinfo>


<title
>Plugins</title>

<sect1 id="netscape-plugin">
<title
>&Netscape; Plugins</title>

<para
>Currently, &konqueror; supports &Netscape; 4.x plugins.</para>

<para
>Selecting <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
><guisubmenu
> Configure Konqueror...</guisubmenu
><guimenuitem
>Plugins</guimenuitem
> </menuchoice
> will give you a dialogue box with two tabbed pages; <guilabel
>Scan</guilabel
> and <guilabel
>Plugins</guilabel
>.</para>

<para
>The <guilabel
>Scan</guilabel
> page controls how &kde; scans for new &Netscape; plugins, either manually by pressing the <guibutton
>Scan for New Plugins</guibutton
> button or automatically each time &kde; starts up.</para>
	
<para
>The scan is done by looking through the folders listed in the <guilabel
>Scan Folders</guilabel
> list for <literal role="extension"
>.so</literal
> files containing plugin code. It examines every such file to find out which <acronym
>MIME</acronym
> types the plugin supports. It then creates <acronym
>MIME</acronym
> type definitions for &kde; in the user's <filename class="directory"
> ~/.kde/share/mimelnk</filename
> folder to make other applications aware of them.</para>

<para
>The <guilabel
>Plugins</guilabel
> page shows you the &Netscape; plugins that &kde; has found, and for each plugin it lists the <acronym
>MIME</acronym
> types and the filename suffixes it uses to recognise them.</para>

<para
>The dialogue box also contains a checkbox <guilabel
> Enable plugins globally</guilabel
> which you can use to enable or disable plugins that can be contained in <acronym
>HTML</acronym
> pages (these can be considered a security risk).</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="konq-plugin">
<title
>&konqueror; Plugins</title>

<para
>The package kdeaddons 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 <guimenuitem
>Konqueror Plugins</guimenuitem
> section in the &kde; Help Centre.</para>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term
>Web Page Translation</term>
<listitem
><para
>This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current <acronym
>HTML</acronym
> page to whatever language you want (within reason). It can be launched with <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>Translate Web Page</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
>.</para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>Folder View Filter</term>
<listitem
><para
>This is controlled by <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>View Filter</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
> and allows you to choose which types of item are displayed in a folder.</para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>DOM Tree Viewer</term>
<listitem
><para
>Selecting <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>Show DOM Tree</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
> opens a new window which displays the document object model (DOM) of the current <acronym
>HTML</acronym
> page.</para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>HTML Validator</term>
<listitem
><para
>This is started with <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>Validate Web Page</guisubmenu
><guimenuitem
>Validate HTML</guimenuitem
></menuchoice
>. It uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when creating web pages.</para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>CSS Validator</term>
<listitem
><para
>Started with <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>Validate Web Page</guisubmenu
><guimenuitem
>Validate CSS</guimenuitem
></menuchoice
>, it uses the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style Sheets.</para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>HTML Settings</term>
<listitem
><para
>Select <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>HTML Settings</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
> to enable or disable a number of HTML settings without going through the <guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
> dialogue. </para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>Image Gallery</term>
<listitem
><para
>In File Manager mode, you can select <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>Create Image Gallery</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
> to create an HTML page with thumbnails of all the images in the current folder. By default the HTML page is called <filename
>images.html</filename
> and the thumbnails are put into a new <filename
>thumbs</filename
> folder. </para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>User Agent Changer</term>
<listitem
><para
>Select <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
>Change Browser Identification</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
> to get a menu that allows you to change the User Agent string without going through the <guimenu
>Settings </guimenu
> dialogue procedure. </para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>Archive Web Page</term>
<listitem
><para
>Invoked with <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Tools</guimenu
><guisubmenu
> Archive Web Page</guisubmenu
></menuchoice
>, this tool creates an archive (<literal role="extension"
>.war</literal
> ) file containing the web page being viewed including the images. <mousebutton
>Left</mousebutton
> click on the archive file name to view the saved page. </para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term
>Navigation Panel Media Player</term>
<listitem
><para
>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. </para
></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>



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