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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Sneaking in another KonqDirPart
From:       Michael Schuerig <michael () schuerig ! de>
Date:       2004-03-12 0:30:34
Message-ID: 200403120130.35035.michael () schuerig ! de
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Konqueror currently embeds KFind as a KonqDirPart. I'd like to have 
something similar for the full-text indexer swish++, so I looked into 
how it's done in KFind. I think I understand the code itself. What 
gives me a headache is the integration with Konqueror. I don't quite 
understand the desktop files. So I just gave it a shot in the hope of 
being lucky. Well, of course I wasn't, thus I looked into the Konqueror 
source (specifically konq_mainwindow.cc) and got the impression that 
what I intend to do is not even possible as there doesn't seem to be a 
generic mechanism and the integration with KFindPart is explicitly 
coded.

I'm not sold on writing a KonqDirPart. I already have a kio-slave for 
swish++ that's of little use. Also, I considered a sidebar plugin and, 
of course, adding a swish++ front-end to KFind. I discarded the latter, 
since KFind is already pretty unwieldy for quick searches and adding 
more stuff would make the UI even more complicated and slow to use.

Any suggestions?

Michael

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Michael Schuerig               Most people would rather die than think.
mailto:michael@schuerig.de                            In fact, they do.
http://www.schuerig.de/michael/                      --Bertrand Russell
 
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