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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror plugins
From:       Andreas Schlapbach <schlpbch () iam ! unibe ! ch>
Date:       2001-05-28 15:02:04
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On Monday 28 May 2001 16:47, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think the way Konqueror inserts plugins into the Tools menu should be
> adjusted a little bit. Right now, the titles are read from the desktop
> files, which might lead to accelerator key clashes (as it is right now the
> case between the CSS and the HTML validation plugins) because the plugins
> don't know which accelerators are still available.

Actually I was thinking of merging the two plugins anyway, as the only thing 
that distinguishes them is the url they send their request to. I'll call them 
validation plugin.

> ...
> &Find file
> -----------
> &1) HTML Settings
> &2) Translate Web Page
>
> This would not only ensure that every entry has an accelerator (HTML
> Settings currently lacks one) but also guarantee each accelerator to be
> unique. A problem is that more than ten plugins are hardly feasible this
> way, I cannot think of a good way to solve that problem at the moment. It's
> still an idea to think about IMHO.

I've been contacted by people who are anout to write new plugins, so Frerich 
surely has a point there.

Andreas

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