developing plugins - newbie help needed

[Henrique Pinto]

On Sun 13 Aug 2006 06:17, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> I am trying to learn how kdeaddons/konq-plugins/arkplugin works.
> Going relatively well, I can build and install it, but the plugin is
> never loaded in Konqueror.
>
> Right-clicking a .tar.gz file (for example) doesn't yield any extra
> menu items, neither does clicking compressible items.
>
> I'm wondering how KDE loads it's plugins, and why mine isn't loaded.
> There's no logfile I can look at, and no place to enable/disable these
> things from kcontrol, it seems.
>
> Clues?
> How does Konqueror decide which plugins to load?
> When does the loading occur (do I have to restart KDE?)?
>
> This is what "make install" in my project does:
>   (install docs)
>   mkinstalldirs /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3
>   libtool --silent --mode=install install -c -p libtestproj.la
> /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libtestproj.la
>   ldconfig -n /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3
>   (install icons)
>
> ls -l /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libtest* shows that a .so file was also
> installed, though it's not described by the output of "make install".
>
> No extra menu items :-/.

You are missing the *.desktop file.

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	Henrique Pinto
	henrique.pinto at kdemail.net