2002-09-22
3.1

# Plugins

## &Netscape; Plugins

Currently, &konqueror; supports &Netscape; 4.x plugins.

Selecting Settings Configure Konqueror...Plugins will give you a dialog box with two tabbed pages; Scan and Plugins.

The Scan page controls how &kde; scans for new &Netscape; plugins, either manually by pressing the Scan for New Plugins button or automatically each time &kde; starts up.

The scan is done by looking through the directories listed in the Scan Directories list for `.so` files containing plugin code. It examines every such file to find out which MIME types the plugin supports. It then creates MIME type definitions for &kde; in the user's `~/.kde/share/mimelnk` directory to make other applications aware of them.

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

The dialog box also contains a checkbox Enable plugins globally which you can use to enable or disable plugins that can be contained in HTML pages (these can be considered a security risk).

## &konqueror; Plugins

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 Konqueror Plugins section in the &kde; Help Center.

Web Page Translation

  This uses AltaVista's BabelFish site to translate the current HTML page to whatever language you want (within reason). It can be launched with Tools Translate Web Page.

Directory View Filter

  This is controlled by Tools View Filter and allows you to choose which types of item are displayed in a directory.

DOM Tree Viewer

  Selecting Tools Show DOM Tree opens a new window which displays the document object model (DOM) of the current HTML page.

HTML Validator

  This is started with Tools Validate Web Page Validate HTML. It uses the W3C HTML validator to validate the current page, very useful when creating web pages.

CSS Validator

  Started with Tools Validate Web Page Validate CSS, it uses the W3C CSS validator to validate the current page's Cascading Style Sheets.

HTML Settings

  Select Tools HTML Settings to enable or disable a number of HTML settings without going through the Settings dialog.

Image Gallery

  In File Manager mode, you can select Tools Create Image Gallery to create an HTML page with thumbnails of all the images in the current directory. By default the HTML page is called `images.html` and the thumbnails are put into a new `thumbs` directory.

User Agent Changer

  Select Tools Change Browser Indentification to get a menu that allows you to change the User Agent string without going through the Settings dialog procedure.

Archive Web Page

  Invoked with Tools Archive Web Page, this tool creates an archive (`.war` ) file containing the web page being viewed including the images. Left click on the archive file name to view the saved page.

Navigation Panel Media Player

  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.