Hello KFM developers.  

Please let me introduce myself:  I'm one of the software developers that
works on RealPlayer for Unix.  I was browsing your archives and saw some
discussion about RP and wanted to let you know who I am so that if you
have RealPlayer/unix questions or issues, you have a contact at RN.

However, I have an ulterior motive too:  I'm trying to write the next
generation of browser integration for RP (moving beyond our traditional
"mimeinstall.sh" integration) and wanted to ask a couple of questions!

1.  RealPlayer often sends an url to a browser, if the user clicks on a
    link.  We would like to make Konqueror an option for the user to send 
    links to.  Is there a way to remotely command Konqueror to do this, 
    similar to the "netscape -remote openURL($URL)" syntax we
    use for netscape?

2.  At some point in the future, we may create an installer option to set
    the user's home page to www.real.com.  How would I accomplish this 
    (note that this option always defaults to no, and won't be supported 
    for a long time anyway).

3.  Is there an official method to determine whether konqueror is
    installed?

4.  Is there a C, C++, or executable level API to make Konqueror reread
    its mime and helper associations from disk once we've modified them?

5.  Has the format of .kdelnk mime and helper associations changed?

6.  (I think this is the wrong list for this question)
    Do we add items to the K menu in the same way?

If anyone has answers for these questions, this would be great.  We still
hope to support drag and drop at some point too, but unfortunately the
existence of several systems causes trouble for us.  If anyone knows of a
BSD or equivalent -licensed implementation of a motif/kde/gnome drag &
drop library, I would love to hear about it.

Lastly, please if any of you have specific questions about realplayer
helper app issues or embedded player (plugin) issues, please let me know.
I have to install Konqueror now to try it out... I haven't tried it yet!

Thanks very much
Peter Godman
Exclusively a KDE user since 1998!