Persistence of KParts plugins

[Antonio Larrosa Jiménez]

Hello,

It's been a long time since I've first thought of modifying the web 
archiver plugin of Konqueror. The main problem I had with it was that it 
always blocks Konqueror until it finished downloading all the images on 
the page, which can take a long time. Also, even if you try to do other 
things with other applications while it's archiving a page, the popup of 
multiple windows (from kio) which steal the focus is really annoying.

As a result, yesterday afternoon I made some changes to it. In my version, 
the web archiver shows a dialog with a listview in which you can see the 
state of all the images that are being downloaded, in a few days, you'll 
be able to retry the download of a single image if it fails, which 
currently just fails silently (so now, you have to open the war file after 
archiving, just to be sure everything was loaded ok, which happens more 
often than usual, as sometimes the download window steals the focus just 
when you're pressing the space key, and that cancels a single download).

I've also ported it to use KIO::Job instead of the NetAccess class, and the 
dialog is non-modal so that you can still use Konqueror to navigate while 
the page is being archived.

But now I have a problem, and it's that it seems that when konqueror 
deletes the khtmlpart, it deletes the plugins, so if you close the web 
page that is being archived, the archiver exits too.

Can somebody tell me if there's any way to do this correctly so that the 
archiver stays open even if the user closes the whole konqueror window?
(the dialog has a cancel button so that should be the way to exit from the 
archiver).
Or should I just exec another binary and do all the job of the plugin from 
the external binary? (in that case, the archiver would need to download 
the same page again, since currently, it reuses the dom tree from 
konqueror).

Greetings,

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Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
KDE developer - larrosa at kde.org
http://developer.kde.org/~larrosa/
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