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diff --git a/doc/kcontrol/ebrowsing/Makefile.am b/doc/kcontrol/ebrowsing/Makefile.am new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4d7741915 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/kcontrol/ebrowsing/Makefile.am @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +KDE_LANG = en +KDE_DOCS = kcontrol/ebrowsing diff --git a/doc/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.docbook b/doc/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.docbook new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da9167f6e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" +"dtd/kdex.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> +<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> +]> + +<article lang="&language;"> +<articleinfo> + +<authorgroup> +<author>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author> +<author>&Yves.Arrouye; &Yves.Arrouye.mail;</author> +<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> +</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 standardized 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>parameterize</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 +dialog. 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 dialog 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 recognized as such.</para> + +<para>By now, you will have understood that even though these shortcuts +are called web shortcuts, they really are shortcuts to parameterized +<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>
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