<chapter id="plugins"> <chapterinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Pamela.Roberts;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </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 dialog box with two tabbed pages; <guilabel>Scan</guilabel> and <guilabel>Plugins</guilabel>.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Scan</guilabel> page controls how &tde; scans for new &Netscape; plugins, either manually by pressing the <guibutton>Scan for New Plugins</guibutton> button or automatically each time &tde; 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 &tde; in the user's <filename class="directory"> ~/.trinity/share/mimelnk</filename> folder to make other applications aware of them.</para> <para>The <guilabel>Plugins</guilabel> page shows you the &Netscape; plugins that &tde; has found, and for each plugin it lists the <acronym>MIME</acronym> types and the filename suffixes it uses to recognize them.</para> <para>The dialog 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 tdeaddons 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 &tde; Help Center.</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> dialog. </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> dialog 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> </chapter> <!-- Local Variables: mode: sgml sgml-omittag: nil sgml-shorttag: t sgml-minimize-attributes: nil sgml-general-insert-case: lower sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") End: -->