Auto download of flash plugin / bug 66179

Benoît Canet bcanet at dental-on-line.fr
Wed Sep 14 13:44:54 BST 2005



Hello,

I've written a small flash installer for kde 3.5 khtml.
I know 3.5 is feature freeze but maybe this patch can be usefull for some 
people who make their own kde based distro.
The installer use an xml configuration file to retrieve some infos about 
available netscape plugins.
The URL of this configuration file must be given in kcmnspluginrc with a key 
like PluginsListFile=file://$HOME/config.xml.
When this key is present the installer get the xml file with Netaccess and 
parse it.
If a plugin is available for this platform and this mimetype a KWizard is 
shown.
If no plugin is available the normal download plugin dialog is displayed.
The install wizard looks like Firefox plugin install wizard.
The wizard download the licence and the plugin tar.gz from macromedia web site 
so there no licence problem.

shortcomings :
	the wizard doesn't reload the current web page at the end of the install.
	I'm not sure if this installer works with the AMD64 platform.

Best Regards

Benoît Canet
Dental On Line

ps : the patch apply to kdelibs/khtml
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