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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Interesting tool
From:       Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-08-08 14:40:05
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 02:02:16AM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I would like to make a KDE history brwser which would let you find things
> > > > easily in it, too (and for that one I *am* willing to code ;-)
> > > 
> > > Have you seen wwwoffle ? It caches, proxies and does offline browsing. It's
> > > also stable, GPL and, er, cool.
> > > 
> > > Some people started work on a front end to it ('koffle'). I suggested they
> > > think about trying to get it integrated into konqy. It would beat the pants
> > > off the lame stuff in MS's IE.
> > > 
> > > You can tell wwwoffle when you're (on|off)line, so I add 'wwwoffle -online'
> > > and 'wwwoffle -offline' to kppp's commands-to-run stuff. Very neat. The
> > > only real problem with it is that the history is often huge and not that
> > > nice to browse. Even simply adjusting the HTML that wwwoffle generates
> > > would make this extremely nice, though I think sticking stuff into a
> > > QListView would look better in konqy.
> > 
> > you could make an ioslave for it and list the data via UDSEntries, this
> > makes it possible to show the stuff in Konqy as TreeView (QListView) or
> > IconView on-the-fly, without actually hacking konqy, but still giving
> > access to this history to everyone :-)
> 
> And kfm could get fixed so that it really works. Kfm doesn't handle the http
> wwwoffle generates. The error pages of wwwoffle are not shown only a stupid
> dialog box(File not found -yes, but why don't you show me the wwwoffle page
> explaining why?). This makes me use Netscape.

I don't know how "critical" this is for kfm, but perhaps David can fix
this in kfm?

Did you try wwwoffle with Konqueror already?

Greetings,
 Simon

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