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Description:

This software implements a plugin for Netscape-compatible browsers in a Unix environment. This plugin uses KDE's KParts technology to embed file viewers (e.g. for PDF files) into non-KDE browsers. Tested browsers include both Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
With this plugin, you can e.g. view PDF files in Firefox using Okular as an embedded plugin.
Last changelog:

8 years ago

2012-07-23
* Applying patch by Arno Rehn to avoid blacklisting in
Oxygen-transparent style

2012-06-05
* Using URL to create a default filename when saving
copy of document
* Minor change in UI to place long mime type labels
in one line
* Adding push button to copy URL into clipboard

2012-05-29
* Fixing some minor compilation errors
* Adding KCModule (System Settings module) to configure
which mime types shall be supported, removing this
option from the plugin itself

2012-05-24
* Rearranging GUI to be more compact vertically
* Porting from KBibTeX support for custom keyboard shorts
* Refactoring drop-down menu to tree view for mime type
configuration

2012-04-22
* Adding patch by Rex Dieter
set installation directory by parameter to cmake
* Fixing print menu item issue for Okular part
* Menus and toolbars know separators now

2012-04-19
* Various minor changes
* Adding experimental support for menus and toolbars
from embedded part

2012-04-11
* Adding various mimetypes to blacklist

2011-08-23
* Blacklisting some more Java mimetypes: application/java-archive and video/x-javafx

2011-08-06
* Minor code clean-up and refactoring (no functional changes)

2011-06-06
* Added .pot file for translations
(no actual translations yet)

2010-12-16
* Adding "application/googletalk" to blacklisted mime types

2010-12-08
* Adding "application/futuresplash" to blacklisted mime types
* Checking if mime type is valid when reading data to avoid crash
* Minor tweaks in user interface strings

2010-07-23
* Manually raising dialog to select part (if multiple
KParts available for same mime type)
* Minor GUI improvements

2010-07-22
* Showing current mime type in GUI (right to buttons)
* Adding more mime types to built-in blacklisted list
("application/force-download", everything starting
with "x-")
* Adding release date to internal description
(see "about:plugins" in Firefox)

2010-07-06
* Marking some mime types as built-in blacklisted, e.g.
application/x-shockwave-flash
* Adding more mime types to built-in blacklist to avoid
problems with Thunderbird

2010-06-29
* Adding dialog to choose which KPart to use if several
parts are available. User can set preference to avoid
getting this dialog again for the same mime type.

2010-06-27
* Adding comments throughout the code
* Enabling/disabling mime types possible in GUI
(new push button with menu)
* Improved focus handling using code from Jeremy Sanders
* Make installation path 32/64-bit aware
* Minor GUI improvements

2010-06-04
* Major refactoring
* Supported mime types determined through KDE-internal
functions; hard-coded list no longer necessary
* Adding support for keyboard focus.
Tip from Jeremy Sanders (http://barmag.net/)

2010-06-02
* Saving file failed if part was not loaded properly.

2010-06-01
* CMakeLists.txt contains a variable with installation
directory
* New script src/generate-mimetype-includes.sh to enhance
"raw" source files to final files containing a list of
objects (one for each supported mime type)
List of mime types can be controlled via text file
src/mimetypes.txt
* Showing a list of compiled-in/supported mime types
while waiting for the file's data
* Open and save buttons are available even if no part
is available to show the file's data
* Fixing warnings

2010-05-21
* Initial release

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poomerang

9 years ago

Is it possible to have the "Search" functions (and maybe others too) in the plugin? Or does it depend on okular kpart's developers?

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fischer

9 years ago

It is rather a limitation of the Netscape plugin interface (and maybe the X Window system) how to handle e.g. keypresses. If you press Ctrl+F, should the browser take this keystroke to search the webpage, or the plugin to search its PDF? (this is a rhetorical question)
The only practical solution I see right now is that you have to open the PDF in an external viewer, which gives you all features you want.

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poomerang

9 years ago

it's not just that, if you put the focus (click) in the plugin part, pressing Ctrl+F just doesn't produce anything, while on browser's focus it would use the browser's find function which, of course, is totally useless. it seems to me "search" is just disabled in the plugin/kpart, which is quite a shame 'cos it forces to use an external program...just like not having the plugin!

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fischer

9 years ago

Keyboard control is messy if you are using a KPart inside a Netscape browser plugin inside a browser. I don't see an obvious solution, but if you find one I'll be happy to include it into this plugin.

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poomerang

9 years ago

it seems to be a kpart's missing feature, it's not possible to use shortcuts at all (at least in okular and some other apps' kpart), no matter if in firefox plugin loader or rekonq or whatever.

BTW, it seems kpartsplugin will make it into Debian - http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/kpartsplugin_20101216-1.html :)

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fischer

9 years ago

Nice to hear that about Debian.
BTW, my favorite distribution contains it was well: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-plugins/kpartsplugin

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poomerang

9 years ago

Uhm, I might be wrong, as apparently someone got an Okular Kpart (based on qtbrowserplugin as well) to work inside Firefox and WITH the search function

maybe you want to check it by yourself https://github.com/jeremysanders/okularplugin

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poomerang

9 years ago

i've packaged it for (K)Ubuntu and put it in my PPA

https://launchpad.net/~poomerang/+archive/extra

thanks for the great work :)

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fischer

9 years ago

Thank you for your contribution, too!

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thomasjfedora

9 years ago

For posterity, kpartsplugin is since a long time in Fedora. I'm the packager.

yum install kpartsplugin

BTW, thanks for this great software.

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fischer

9 years ago

Thank you for your contribution!

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nerdykid

10 years ago

couple quick things, first to anyone who uses Gmail, this plugin screws up the google talk plugin, you need to disable kparts for the google talk mime type. Second, I must say that I think this is a sick idea! the only other problem I have had with it so far (besides the gmail thing) is that it overrides any java applets on the web page. How would I fix this? I did not see any mime type for java to disable. Thanks!

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fischer

10 years ago

(hm, my answer is not shown in the forum. Maybe it got lost ...).
About the Google Talk problem: Should have been fixed with the next version (see ChangeLog).
About the Java problem. Can you verify this problem with different browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Arora, ...)? If yes, please provide me with an example URL to test it.

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nerdykid

10 years ago

I was actually using webmin on my server, so I can't give you the url for that :D However, the same issue shows up here: http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

I tried it with konquerer, rekonq, opera, firefox, and chrome and none of them had the issue except for chrome. I am using 8.0.552.224 -- stable latest.

heres a screenie: http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3602/bugi.png

thanks!

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kudlaty

10 years ago

I can confirm this problem, I'm having the same issue with Firefox 3.6.13.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5090693/kpartsjava.png

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flyingsheep

9 years ago

me too, firefox 6.0.

about:plugins says otherwise, but the kparts plugin does abduct java applets

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fischer

9 years ago

Very strange. Do you have a working Java applet? I.e. if you deactivate or even deinstall KPartsPlugin, is the Java applet working again correctly?
If the Java applet is working correctly, I would need the URL where you observed the problem for my own testing.

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flyingsheep

9 years ago

ha, tried the fix, and it works!

thank you!

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flyingsheep

9 years ago

i’ll try your fix. for the record: the bug didn’t occur in chrome, only in firefox, and it occurred with every java applet on any site.

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fischer

9 years ago

Hm, I think I found and fixed the problem. Please try release 20110823.

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roctheme

10 years ago

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:leviatan1/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kpartsplugin
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libkpartsplugin.so

If you have adobereader installed too, you must manually remove the npwrapper.nppdf.so softlink from the directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

After this, you have all plugins from Konqueror in Firefox.
Thanks.

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roctheme

9 years ago

The new /var/lib/dpkg/info/kpartsplugin.postinst script set the link from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libkpartsplugin.so to /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libkpartsplugin.so automatic.

So you only have to remove the npwrapper.nppdf.so softlink from the directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins after every update of adobereader, if you want to use okularpart in firefox, opera or chromium as pdf-plugin.

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franciscot

9 years ago

The last build againts kubuntu natty with kde 4.6, I add a conflict with acroread/adobereader in the package, Fix the problem? What do you think? I don't know because I don't use adobe reader.

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roctheme

9 years ago

Hello franciscot,

I use since natty this ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~poomerang/+archive/extra
But your old package for maverick works too in natty with kde 4.6.

But the package from Michele Gastaldo and the old one from you, I cannot detect a conflict with acroread/adobereader.

Due too my poor English, I hope I have understand you correct and you can translate what I try to say.

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franciscot

9 years ago

The "conflict" is only in the new package for kubuntu 11.04.

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8 years ago

2012-07-23
* Applying patch by Arno Rehn to avoid blacklisting in
Oxygen-transparent style

2012-06-05
* Using URL to create a default filename when saving
copy of document
* Minor change in UI to place long mime type labels
in one line
* Adding push button to copy URL into clipboard

2012-05-29
* Fixing some minor compilation errors
* Adding KCModule (System Settings module) to configure
which mime types shall be supported, removing this
option from the plugin itself

2012-05-24
* Rearranging GUI to be more compact vertically
* Porting from KBibTeX support for custom keyboard shorts
* Refactoring drop-down menu to tree view for mime type
configuration

2012-04-22
* Adding patch by Rex Dieter
set installation directory by parameter to cmake
* Fixing print menu item issue for Okular part
* Menus and toolbars know separators now

2012-04-19
* Various minor changes
* Adding experimental support for menus and toolbars
from embedded part

2012-04-11
* Adding various mimetypes to blacklist

2011-08-23
* Blacklisting some more Java mimetypes: application/java-archive and video/x-javafx

2011-08-06
* Minor code clean-up and refactoring (no functional changes)

2011-06-06
* Added .pot file for translations
(no actual translations yet)

2010-12-16
* Adding "application/googletalk" to blacklisted mime types

2010-12-08
* Adding "application/futuresplash" to blacklisted mime types
* Checking if mime type is valid when reading data to avoid crash
* Minor tweaks in user interface strings

2010-07-23
* Manually raising dialog to select part (if multiple
KParts available for same mime type)
* Minor GUI improvements

2010-07-22
* Showing current mime type in GUI (right to buttons)
* Adding more mime types to built-in blacklisted list
("application/force-download", everything starting
with "x-")
* Adding release date to internal description
(see "about:plugins" in Firefox)

2010-07-06
* Marking some mime types as built-in blacklisted, e.g.
application/x-shockwave-flash
* Adding more mime types to built-in blacklist to avoid
problems with Thunderbird

2010-06-29
* Adding dialog to choose which KPart to use if several
parts are available. User can set preference to avoid
getting this dialog again for the same mime type.

2010-06-27
* Adding comments throughout the code
* Enabling/disabling mime types possible in GUI
(new push button with menu)
* Improved focus handling using code from Jeremy Sanders
* Make installation path 32/64-bit aware
* Minor GUI improvements

2010-06-04
* Major refactoring
* Supported mime types determined through KDE-internal
functions; hard-coded list no longer necessary
* Adding support for keyboard focus.
Tip from Jeremy Sanders (http://barmag.net/)

2010-06-02
* Saving file failed if part was not loaded properly.

2010-06-01
* CMakeLists.txt contains a variable with installation
directory
* New script src/generate-mimetype-includes.sh to enhance
"raw" source files to final files containing a list of
objects (one for each supported mime type)
List of mime types can be controlled via text file
src/mimetypes.txt
* Showing a list of compiled-in/supported mime types
while waiting for the file's data
* Open and save buttons are available even if no part
is available to show the file's data
* Fixing warnings

2010-05-21
* Initial release

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