From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 02 06:05:39 2000
From: Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <mhk () caldera ! de>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 06:05:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: BUG: netscape plugins
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97046671326570

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Matthias Ettrich wrote:

> Netscape plugin (for example acrobat reader for pdf) works when being used
> over ftp or http. It doesn't work (reproducable) for a pdf file on the local
> machine  ( file://bla/blub/foo.pdf). Acrobat Reader starts but only shows an
> error messagebox (something with file not found).
> 
> Another thing that bothers me is that the nsplugin swallows the entire
> kwin decoration. The result looks like MDI but behaves rather strangely.
> Netscape has the same bug, I tried to fix it in kwin (that means: hack around
> it in kwin) but failed so far. I have no clue what either netscape or konqueror
> are doing. 

Konqueror doesn't swallow acroread at all. What probably
happens is that you have the xswallow-plugin installed. So
konqueror loads the xswallow plugin, which in turn runs
acroread and swallows the acroread window. So to fix the
decorations, you will have to fix the xswallow plugin. 


Bye,
Matthias.