[dot] LinuxTag: KDE Applications for Firefox

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1119705193/

From: Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org>
Dept: meeting-of-the-beasts
Date: Saturday 25/Jun/2005, @08:13

LinuxTag: KDE Applications for Firefox
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   Today the KDE project previewed a new technology that allows
arbitrary KPart-based
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kparts/] KDE
applications to be embedded into Mozilla's [http://www.mozilla.org/]
FireFox [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/]. Thus, KDE
applications can soon be used to show rich content such as PDF files
using KPDF [http://kpdf.kde.org/] or display multimedia files with
KMPlayer [http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/kmplayer.html] or Kaffeine
[http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/].

     KPDF inside Firefox "Once again, KParts has proven to be a flexible
component technology that makes development easy even with dealing with
non-KDE applications", said Tobias König, author of the KPart-Firefox
integration. As the code was created on the KDE booth at LinuxTag, it is
not yet in the KDE repository [http://websvn.kde.org/]. However König,
best known as the author of KAddressbook [http://pim.kde.org], is
planning to check in the code soon.