plugin badness

[Koos Vriezen]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:11:10AM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> 
> Lately there have been scores of reports of plugins (flash in particular) no 
> longer working in konqueror.  There have been absolutely no changes to 
> qxembed or nspluginviewer, but I think I see a possible reason, though I 
> can't reproduce it myself.  It seems like we now list -every- kpart as a 
> plugin.  I think this is bound to cause problems.

Yesterday I noticed too a site that didn't work anymore. Reason was that after
a mimetype check of flash, it accessed plugins["Shockwave Flash"] what failed.
It's r1.67 kjs_navigator.cpp that is the cause of this :-(

> - We list KHTML as a plugin for KHTML.  How strange (from a website 
> perspective).
> - We list libnsplugin as a plugin.  That is, we list the plugin loader as a 
> plugin, which supports all the mimetypes that all the plugins support of 
> course.  This must be extremely confusing to some sites out there and results 
> in at -least- duplicating each mime type.
> - We publish a list of all installed kparts to any website out there that 
> wants to know (minor privacy concerns)
> - We list rediculous things like Inode/directory parts to websites
> - The plugin list is -huge- and thus slow to iterate
> - Many mimetypes are now duplicated, triplicated, or more

All these are plugable. Only nsplugin is an exception that it plugs something
else (obviously needed for some scripts).

> Why don't we add a new property to kparts that says to publish them to remote 
> sites who query for a list of plugins?

Sounds fine with me. Btw, too bad you didn't react on this last mounth.
 
>    It's great to know that I can now make a website that will embed cervisia, 
> kfindpart, kate, the print management tool, vim, 2 (!!!) different 
> libkghostviewpart, konsole, the font viewer, korganizer, the konqi sidebar, 
> and much more. :-)  Anyhow, I listing kparts there has to be reverted asap 
> and then a proper solution (such as what I listed above) added as an 
> alternative.
> 
> -- 
> George Staikos
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