David and everyone:

Thanks very much for all of your help:  I'll let you know how it goes:
look for integration in the next RealPlayer release!

Thanks,
Pete

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, David Faure wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your interest in Konqueror.
> I'll complete Waldo's answer with answers to points 2 and 8, then.
> 
> > > 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).
> 
> You would need to store it into the user's webbrowsing profile.
> I guess the easiest way would be to profile a complete profile, which you
> can create by going to www.real.com and then doing "Save view profile webbrowsing".
> Then save your ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles/webbrowsing somewhere,
> and install it into that same place in the user's home if he really wants to.
> (Ironic note: does any user really do that ? :-)
> 
> > 8.  We give the user an option to add real.com and possibly other
> >     multimedia sites as a bookmark in their browser.  Do you share the 
> >     netscape bookmark file, or should this be done in a different way.
> 
> Konqueror can import Netscape bookmarks, but this won't help here
> (it does it "as a whole", it imports the whole file).
> Konqueror natively uses an XML file (~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml)
> that follows the XBEL standard, as defined in
> http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/docs/html/index.html 
> 
> Adding a bookmark should be as simple as editing this XML file using
> any XML tool, to add a <bookmark> tag with the right title and URL 
> (and even icon), and then telling all running konqueror instances (and
> other apps using bookmarks) about it, using :
> 
> dcop konqueror KBookmarkManager 'notifyChanged(QString)' ''
> dcop kdesktop KBookmarkManager 'notifyChanged(QString)' ''
> dcop kicker KBookmarkManager 'notifyChanged(QString)' ''
> dcop keditbookmarks KBookmarkManager 'notifyChanged(QString)' ''
> 
> Of course you can also create a KDE 2 app that links to libkonq to
> use the nice KBookmark classes :)
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> PS: note that when I say ~/.kde, it is in fact the value of $KDEHOME
> if it's set. ~/.kde is the default if KDEHOME isn't set.
> 
> -- 
> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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