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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: BUG: netscape plugins
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-10-02 10:31:28
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Mon, 02 Okt 2000 wrote Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel:
> 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. 

Sure. But do we really have to use this broken plugin for Konqueror? I mean, we
can easily swallow acroread ourselves, without any flicker whatsoever.

Matthias
 > 
> 
> Bye,
> Matthias.

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