Da qualche giorno è disponibile per il download (è possibile scegliere tra le diverse tipologie la più adatta al proprio sistema ed alle proprie esigenze, io ho scaricato il Live CD KDE4) la nuova release di OpenSUSE, la 11.2. Potete leggere l’annuncio ufficiale di rilascio, le caratteristiche salienti di questa nuova release. E’ disponibile un set di screenshot che vi accompagnerà alla scoperta ed ai primi approcci con questa bella distribuzione linux.

OpenSUSE forse è stata la prima distribuzione GNU Linux veramente “amichevole”, in grado di configurare tutto a “colpi” di click e, soprattutto, la migliore quanto a riconoscimento hardware. Rimane tuttora tra le più adatte a chi si avvicina a GNU Linux per la prima volta.

L’ambiente desktop è KDE 4.3.1 ed il kernel è 2.6.31.5-0.1-default.

OpenSUSE non include driver proprietari e nemmeno i principali codecs audio e video che dovranno perciò essere installati in seguito.

Avviando da CD, vengono riconosciute e montate le eventuali partizioni windows presenti (queste ed altre informazioni sul sistema in uso sono accessibili semplicemente cliccando su My Computer) sulle quali è possibile scrivere.

Il filmato che vi propongo non è indicativo del reale tempo di avvio, perché testato su macchina virtuale e poi editato per tagliare i “tempi morti”, è però utile per dare una breve rassegna dei software inclusi con un occhio di riguardo a quelli di uso più comune:

• navigazione web: Konqueror e Firefox 3.5 (plugin flash non incluso ma scaricabile dopo l’installazione)
• posta elettronica: KMail
• chat: Kopete, Konversation
• torrent: KTorrent
• ufficio: OpenOffice.org
• grafica: Gwenview (viewer), Gimp (editor), digiKam, showFoto
• audio: Amarok
• video: Kaffeine
• navigazione file: Dolphin

Interessante la scelta di proporre Marble.

Da quanto vi ho appena descritto, è chiaro che un intervento, seppur minimo, dell’utente è richiesto perché il sistema si adatti alle nostre esigenze.

KDE 4 has this nice plasma widget called ‘device notifier’, which shows attached devices such as USB flash drives, CD/DVD drives, or digital cameras.

Device Notifier

Clicking on this icon shows all attached devices, in my example it is a single USB flash drive named ‘256MThFisch’.

Device Notifier plasma widget

Clicking on such a device brings up a list of possible actions, e.g. to browse the files with Dolphin or Konqueror, downloading all photos with digiKam, or playing music titles with Amarok.

List of actions with device

Well, this is quite nice for users relying on KDE software only. But what happens if you are a power-user, using terminals such as Konsole? Whenever you want to mount a device, you have to start an application such as Dolphin, Konqueror, or digiKam even if you do not want to use it …

Adding your own Action for Mounting

As KDE4 is very configurable, you can improve this situation. In the System Settings you can configure which action are available when a storage medium becomes available. Here, we are going to add our own action which ‘just’ mounts a device.

System Settings - Advanced

Configuration of Actions for Devices

To add you own action, click on the ‘Add’ button and enter a name for the new action, such as ‘Mount’.

Adding a new action

In this new action, you can an icon which resembles that action of mounting. In my case, I chose emblem-mounted.png from the emblems directory in the Oxygen icon set. For the command to execute, you can enter any command you like. If you want to see no feedback, use /bin/true. In my example, I used /usr/bin/kdialog --msgbox to get a message box showing a confirmation once the mount process is complete.

Next time you plug in an USB drive, a new option will show up to ‘just’ mount you device without starting any bloated application.

List of actions, 'just mount' option included

Once you activate the ‘Mount’ option, it takes 1-2 seconds and a message box pops up confirming the mount operation. The device is read to use in any application.

Message box

Current Issues

The current approach has some minor issues which may get addressed in later improvements:

• Cases where the mounting operation fails are not handled
• The message box does not show the devices name, type or mount point

Still, good luck with testing this ‘hack’

E’ da qualche giorno disponibile la nuova release di Mandriva, una tra le distribuzioni GNU/Linux più user-friendly. Potete visitare i siti dell’annuncio ufficiale di rilascio e di un breve tour che illustra le caratteristiche salienti di questa versione. Il sito per il download è questo, la versione di riferimento è la One.

Preferisco questa versione in quanto in un solo CD è contenuto tutto il necessario (eventuali altri software possono essere scaricati in un secondo momento dopo l’installazione) e si ha la possibilità di testare il sistema operativo. Punto di forza della One sono i driver inclusi nella distribuzione, infatti già in versione live viene riconosciuta la scheda grafica e data la possibilità all’utente di abilitare gli effetti desktop, quali ad esempio il cubo 3D, le finestre “gommose” ed altri effetti speciali. Le partizioni windows vengono riconosciute e montate in automatico, anche se ciò potrebbe essere potenzialmente pericoloso per un utente inesperto.

L’ambiente desktop è KDE 4.3.2 ed il kernel è 2.6.31.5-desktop586-1mnb.

Il filmato che vi propongo (la durata non è quella effettiva testata su macchina virtuale che ha richiesto tempi biblici!!!) mostra una panoramica delle applicazioni che potete trovare

delle quali cito quelle di uso più comune:

navigazione web: Firefox e Konqueror (già inclusi svariati plugins)
posta elettronica: KMail
voip: Ekiga
chat: Kopete, Quassel IRC
ufficio: OpenOffice.org, Okular (visore di svariati tipi di documenti)
grafica: Gwenview (viewer), Gimp (editor)
audio: Amarok
video: Dragon Player
navigazione file: Dolphin

Con Mandriva 2010.0 possiamo fin da subito ascoltare la nostra musica e vedere i nostri filmati in quanto i codecs sono già inclusi (oltre ai su citati driver per la scheda grafica), insomma  si è “produttivi” da subito (caratteristica che l’ha resa sempre tra le più apprezzate soprattutto dai newbie),  anche se a costo di una certa pesantezza che si fa sentire non solo nel test su macchina virtuale, il che rende questa distribuzione certamente non tra le più veloci.

Ubuntu nelle sue diverse varianti (Kubuntu e Xubuntu le più note) è senza dubbio la distribuzione GNU/Linux che ha fatto più proseliti, soprattutto tra i newbie, per la sua estrema semplicità d’uso e per il suo “parco” software vastissimo.

Per Kubuntu potete visitare il sito dove è postato l’annuncio ufficiale di rilascio ed un (breve tour) che illustra le caratteristiche salienti di questa versione. Il sito per il download è questo.

In modo simile anche per Xubuntu potete leggere l’annuncio, visualizzare un breve tour grafico e quindi passare al download.

Su Kubuntu in versione live vengono riconosciute e montate le eventuali partizioni windows presenti, così fin da subito si ha la possibilità di aprire i propri file per testare le applicazioni presenti in questa distribuzione, non invece su Xubuntu.

La scelta di Kubuntu è adatta all’utente che sa quello che fa, quella di Xubuntu è invece adatta all’utente che preferisce non correre il rischio di rovinare il file system preesistente sul pc.

Dopo una rapida “esplorazione” ci si renderà conto che non è possibile visualizzare correttamente siti con contenuto flash, come ad esempio YouTube, e nemmeno potersi godere i propri file musicali ed i propri filmati.

Karmic Koala infatti non include i principali codecs audio e video (nemmeno flash) e nemmeno driver proprietari, quali ad esempio quelli della scheda video.

Ciò potrebbe far scoraggiare l’utente che sia avvicina per la prima volta al mondo GNU/Linux, ma occorre sottolineare che bastano pochi interventi perché Karmic Koala diventi perfettamente “usabile”.

I filmati che vi propongo servono soltanto a mostrare l’impatto visivo di queste due distribuzioni e fare una carrellata dei principali software che mettono fin da subito a disposizione.

Le durate dei filmati non corrispondono a quelle reali, infatti prima di postarli ho preferito cancellare i “tempi morti” di durata eccessiva, anche perché per la registrazione mi sono servito di macchine virtuali che non emulano a dovere le caratteristiche hardware dei pc in circolazione.

Kubuntu

L’ambiente desktop è KDE 4.3.2 ed il kernel 2.6.31.14.generic.

Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):

• navigazione web: Konqueror
• posta elettronica: KMail
• chat: Kopete, Quassel IRC
• torrent: KTorrent
• ufficio: OpenOffice.org, Okular (visore di svariati tipi di documenti)
• grafica: Gwenview (viewer)
• audio: Amarok
• video: Dragon Player
• CD burning: K3b
• navigazione file: Dolphin

Xubuntu

L’ambiente desktop è Xfce 4.6.1 ed il kernel è 2.6.31-14-generic

Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):

• navigazione web: Firefox
• posta elettronica: Thunderbird
• chat: Pidgin, XChat IRC
• torrent: Transmission
• ufficio: Abiword, Gnumeric
• grafica: Ristretto (viewer), Gimp (editor)
• audio: Exaile
• video: Totem
• CD burning: Brasero
• navigazione file: Thunar

Gli altri programmi possono essere scaricati ad installazione ultimata.

Kubuntu e Xubuntu sono senza dubbio delle ottime distribuzioni (adatte soprattutto a chi proviene da windows) e le consiglio caldamente. Da quanto vi ho appena descritto, è chiaro che un intervento, seppur minimo, dell’utente è richiesto perché il sistema si adatti alle nostre esigenze.

لا يستطيع برنامج Amarok المدمج في Kubuntu تشغيل ملفات mp3 بشكل تلقائي حال تنصيب Kubuntu، بل ستحتاج أولاً لتثبيت codecs الخاصة بها… في الواقع، ستظهر لك شاشة بنفس الفحوى تقريباً حالما تشغل برنامج Amarok:

Update Notifier
Amarok Player recommends installing packages for extra multimedia functionality

(نفس هذه الرسالة قد تظهر لك عند تشغيل برامج أخرى مثل المتصفح Konqueror أو Dragon Player)

لذلك، لتنزيل codecs افتح تيرمنال وأكتب الأمر

sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg

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من المهم هنا أن أذكر أنه قد تواجه رسالة خطأ ملخصها عدم القدرة على التنزيل (أعتذر لأني نسيت نسخ فحواها)، عندها قم فقط بكتابة الأمر

sudo apt-get update

ثم أعد كتابة الأمر الأول

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حواديت ذات صله:

• Kubuntu 9.10 – مشكلة تثبيت فايرفوكس
• اوبونتو 9.10: حان وقت التحميل
• Shiretoko
• Ubuntu كيفية الترقية من 8.10 إلى 9.04

 

This will extract yhe music of all Flash video you have downloaded  with konqueror or arora or or or.., they are on /tmp so it will select every file that starts with Flash***

and it uses mencoder to extract the sound track. good bye

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s extglob # turned extglob on
a=$(kdialog  --inputbox "Please insert a name"  Global-Name --title "Give me a name")

b=1

c=$(kdialog  --getexistingdirectory  $HOME --title "Give me a Output directory")

kdialog  --passivepopup "Work in progress "

for file in  /tmp/+(Flash)* ; #this should filter names and extglob is on

###########################################################################

###########################################################################

do mencoder $file -ovc raw -oac mp3lame -of rawaudio -o "$c"/"$a"-$b.mp3

############################################################################

############################################################################

b=$(($b+1))

done

kdialog  --passivepopup "All music is on $c "

This is an update on my open letter sent to the Ambassador/Consulate of USA in India, and the VFS office complaining that their site is not interoperable and does not work with Mozilla Firefox. I received no reply for two weeks, then I sent another reminder email, to which they replied saying: “There is no other alternative.”  Considering this I reiterate my protest and will not honour any invitation from USA till they commit to rectify and make it interoperable so that free software users are not forced to use proprietary software.

Meanwhile, I reactivated my application to try again and discovered that the site does not work with Mozilla Firefox but manages to work with Konqueror.  The fields in the application however are misaligned in most places.  It is difficult to say without further investigation whether this is due to bad coding on the server side or on the browser side.  I could not test it through the process since no date before 21st of October 2009 is possible even under emergency category, therefore I gave up.

Free software users are increasing in number all over the world.  Unless such roadblocks are cleared we cannot build a greener digital environment. Fight for freedom even if it is expensive!

Algunos pueden pensar que la labor de importar, guardar o exportar marcadores debe ser algo complejo. Para nada, es algo sencillo desde la interfaz gráfica de los navegadores. Además de fácil es aconsejable. Tiene su sentido práctico,  ya que nos permitirá tener nuestros marcadores favoritos entre distintos sistemas operativos, ordenadores, sistemas portables o soportes dónde alojarlos.

No es necesario recurrir a extensiones que nos sincronicen los marcadores o hagan respaldos regulares de forma automática, nosotros mismos podemos tenerlos a salvo,  sin implementar ningún programa externo (Mozbackup), sincronizarlos en la web (delicius) o recurrir a extensiones (Xmarks). Desde cualquiera de los navegadores podemos intercambiar estos datos, no solo cuando algunos acertadamente nos sugieren importar los marcadores de otro/s navegador/es, simplemente seleccionamos el lugar de destino si los exportamos o el sitio dónde estén ubicados desde el navegador de archivos–> Abrir después de estos pasos:.

· Formato de archivo HTML:

Firefox. Desde el menú Marcadores–> Organizar marcadores… –> Importar y respaldar–> Importar HTML… o Exportar HTML.

Google Chrome y Chromium. Desde el menú del icono de la llave –> Bookmark manager (Administrador de marcadores)–> Herramientas–> Importar HTML… o Exportar HTML…

Seamonkey. Menú Marcadores–> Herramientas–> Importar…/Exportar…—> bookmarks.html

Flock. Menú Favoritos–> Organizar Favoritos…–> Importar y respaldar–>  Importar…/Exportar…–> bookmarks.html

· Formatos de archivo rdf

Epiphany (Gecko y WebKit). Menú Marcadores–> Editar marcadores–> Archivo–> Importar marcadores…/Exportar marcadores…–> en el navegador de archivos podemos definir el formato rdf o html.–> marcadores.rdf . Importa los marcadores tanto de Firefox (html), como de Konqueror (xml).

· Formato de archivo adr.

Opera. Archivo–> Importar y exportar–> Convierte entre varios formatos tanto para Firefox (HTML) como para Konqueror (xml). Importar y Exportar marcadores de IE, Firefox o Konqueror.

· Archivo xbel/xml.

Arora. Archivo–> Importar marcadores o Exportar marcadores.

Konqueror. Menú Marcadores–> Editar los marcadores–> Archivo–> Importar/Exportar. Permite exportar e importar los marcadores al formato deseado dependiendo del navegador p.e. Mozilla Firefox (html), Opera o incluso Internet Explorer.

El archivo con los marcadores en Konqueror se encuentra en la ruta:

/home/"usuario"/.kde/share/apps/Konqueror/bookmarks.xml

Midori. No se pueden obtener los marcadores desde los menús del navegador, pero sí que podemos obtener copias de la carpeta del perfil:

/home/"usuario"/.config/midori/bookmarks.xbel

Por si el navegador no dispusiera de conversor de archivos, los archivos con distinta extensión pueden convertirse on-line de forma fácil, através de webs como LinkaGoGo.

Ahora ya podemos tener nuestros marcadores en el formato de archivo que nos interese,  dentro de un CD, lápiz USB, disco duro, alojamiento web, o en nuestra bandeja de correo…  para así acceder desde cualquier sitio con conexión a internet.

Those of you who have been following my Linux Critic blog know that I’ve been on an app-hunt to replace some of the applications to which I’ve grown used to in KDE, mostly so that I can break my ties with that desktop and move forward completely without it. So far I’ve had some measure of success in this task, so I thought I’d do a writeup in case anyone else out there is moving on from KDE and needs some ideas about how to do that.

Finding replacement apps: It’s like switching from Windows to Linux all over again

It feels like I just did this, even though I’ve been running Linux as my primary OS since around 2002. When I decided to stop using KDE recently, I was surprised to find how many KDE applications on which I had become dependent, and how little idea I had what to use as alternatives. Some of them are little and therefore easily replaced, but others that are more full-featured have been quite a challenge. Here’s a sampling of the ones I’ve been working on lately.

Konqueror File Manager

This one is quite possibly the hardest one I’ve had to replace. Anyone out there who has grown accustomed to the power and flexibility of Konqueror File Manager can attest that it’s very difficult to settle on something else once you’ve used it for any length of time.

Fortunately for me, there are many file managers out there for Linux, so I had options a-plenty, but none quite so robust as Konqueror, so I simply found that I had to compromise a number of things in the process. In the end, no single file manager fit my needs, so I replaced Konqueror with two: Thunar and XFE. I chose these two ultimately because they both have a tree-view in the left-pane and a folder/file view in the right-pane, and they both let you type your path into an address/location bar instead of clicking through a bunch of breadcrumbs (I hate file managers that only give you breadcrumbs).

Thunar is pretty, and simple, and has some nice features like thumbnail previews of image files, and it’s very lightweight when compared to Konqueror (but face it, just about ANY file manager is lightweight when compared to Konqueror). For most file management tasks, Thunar does pretty well, with the only thing I really miss out of it being the lack of tabs. One complaint I have about Thunar is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn off the stupid delete confirmation dialogue.

Really? Seriously? I know that shouldn’t drive me nuts, but come on. It makes me feel like I’m using Windows 98 again. In fact, in my testing, I also gave PCManFM a try, and that one even has tabs… but it too had no way to disable the delete confirmation dialogue.

I have what I consider to be very simple tests to determine whether a file manager doesn’t suck, and this is one of them. It’s not a complicated thing.

So, when I get tired of that particular FAIL in Thunar, I switch to XFE. XFE is lightning fast, very Konqueror-like in its flexibility and power, but it has a couple of annoyances as well. XFE also doesn’t have tabs, but I discovered that pretty much everywhere, and I can live with that if I have to, but some basic behavior in XFE bugs me.

Example: You just copied a bunch of files into the clipboard and you navigate to the folder into which you wish to paste them. If that folder is full, anywhere you right-click to paste just shows the context-menu for the file in that spot. Basically put, if there’s no white space for you to right-click on, there’s no way to paste into that folder, aside from going up a level and right-clicking ON that folder and selecting paste.

Like the delete confirmation stupid I mentioned above, this is a little thing that should not bother me that much, but it does. I found myself getting burned by this simple behavior time and time again, and it eventually frustrates me and slows me down so much (I’m used to flying through file management tasks with Konqueror) that I close XFE and go back to Thunar.

I actually really like XFE in nearly every other way… the fact that it has an integrated editor (“xfw”) and the myriad configuration options in the “Preferences” give me lots of ways to make it do what I want it to do.

However, I have discovered, unsurprisingly, that replacing Konqueror is a tough task. In the end, what I have is a pair of applications (Thunar and XFE) that I alternate between based on whichever one happens to be annoying me the most at any given time. This may change down the road, of course. Maybe Thunar will end up with tabs and a way to shut off the “HAY STUPID, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELEET THAT?” dialogue, and maybe the XFE devs will make some of its rather counter-intuitive behavior here and there (like I described above with copying and pasting) go away. Or, maybe some friendly reader here will pipe in and say “hey! Why don’t you try $XYZ? It’s just like Konqueror, but BETTER!” and suggest something that I never ran across that is a critic’s dream of a file manager. Who knows?

Kontact

I’ve written on switching to Thunderbird before, but I felt it relevant to mention it here, given the rest of the discusssion.

Kontact is a full-featured “personal information manager”, not just a mail client. The only other all-in-one such app that does everything that Kontact does out-of-the-box that I found in the open source universe was Evolution, and my recent experiences with Evolution have been less than happy, so I looked elsewhere. What I discovered was that Thunderbird had improved quite a bit over the past few years since I last tried it, and since there are more add-ons for it than you can shake a proverbial stick at, I thought that I might be able to get it to do at least a few of the things I wanted, namely Google calendaring and tasks on top of just POP mail.

I was right. With the Lightning add-on, I had a really nice integrated calendar, and I found out that it can talk to Google for calendaring (which is one up on Kontact… I had to do some pretty goofy stuff to get Kontact to do that even in a half-assed fashion, as opposed to Thunderbird with Lightning, a “full-assed” solution).

So for me anyway, Thunderbird with one simple add-on was enough for me to replace Kontact. It’s a solid mail client, and installing one add-on didn’t impact its performance by any measurable amount, and it added some great calendaring functionality, so I’m pretty happy with the results of this alternative.

Amarok

Amarok, like Konqueror, was another hard one to replace. While there are tons of open source music player applications out there, most of them are pretty feature-light. In fact, most of the ones I tested that liked to pretend to be “full featured” turned out to be less usable than even the lightweight XMMS. While there’s nothing wrong with XMMS, when you compare it to Amarok, it’s like comparing a compact economy car to a Cadillac. Yes, both will get you to where you’re going and they both do their stated job well, but when you’re used to the Cadillac, going to the compact economy car will leave you feeling short-changed.

So I tried a fair number of music players out there, including (but not limited to) Songbird, Banshee, Rhythmbox, and Audacious, and found that none of them were an adequate replacement for Amarok. I’d almost given up, but I had one more to try, and I’m glad I did try it. That one was Exaile.

Exaile is practically a GTK+ implementation of Amarok, it’s so close in form and function. It organizes your music library with a simple tree on the left, has an integrated album cover manager, sane buttons for controls, a big queue list that can be loaded simply by right-clicking on an artist, album, or song and selecting “append to current”, and the ability to create playlists very quickly and easily.

K3b

I haven’t found a replacement for K3b yet. Brasero is the one people always suggest, but I just find it a lot less intuitive than K3b. I can live with it, I suppose, but I’m still in the process of searching when it comes to DVD/CD burning.

Quanta

Like K3b, I haven’t found a replacement for Quanta yet. Bluefish is the one everyone suggests as an alternative to Quanta, but there really is no comparison. Granted, I don’t do a huge amount of web authoring, but I have grown very attached to Quanta for writing my Linux Critic articles, since I prefer to just write in straight-up HTML rather than use the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress, and Bluefish doesn’t even come close to making that process as fast and as slick as Quanta does. So I’m still looking in this particular department as well.

A resource I need to use more

One thing I should mention, for anyone else out there that is also going through something similar, is a great place on the web to find alternates to various applications. Osalt.com has a huge list of applications to suggest if one is looking for another option for anything.

For example, just digging around a bit to look for Quanta alternatives yields this page which lists a fair number of applications I still have yet to try, so obviously I need to spend more time on that site in my endeavoring to replace KDE applications.

I’ll write up an update if or when I make any more progress in this task!

Ezt az érdekességet a redditen olvastam:

Az illető ezt olvasta és, elmondása szerint össze vissza szokta jelölgetni a szövegeket. Amikor félrenyomja az ujját a trackpad-jén, a Konqueror megkérdezi, hogy akar-e arra keresni ami jelenleg a clipboard-ján van.

i have fixed my problems with the fucking printer so i have create a little stupid service menu for dolphin\konqueror and

here it’s

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=111784

Para solucionar este error en kde4 (kde4mod), borrarmos el cache de mime

E instalamos shared-mime-info

Most users take their file managers for granted. It’s there, it does its job, and that’s all they care about. But to Linux users, the file manager is as close to their hearts as their text editor. There is a reason for this: With the Linux operating system, and the various desktops, there are quite a few file managers. Each has standard as well as unique features. In fact, there are so many file managers, and so many unique features, it’s time someone listed 10 of the best choices. See if one of these file managers meets (or surpasses) your needs.

1: Command line

Although the command line isn’t just a file manager, you can’t have a listing of Linux file management tools without including it Without these tools, working on headless servers would be a challenge (unless you’re using remote desktop). And being someone who cut his Linux teeth with the command line, not a day goes by where I do not use it for something.

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I just merged my branch of Konqueror searchbar plugin that supports Opensearch [1] mainly to replace my own implementation of search suggestion. Opensearch has an xml formatted open search description, that may contain search url and suggestion service url. To parse the xml, I borrowed Arora’s open search xml parser and writer, written by Jakub Wieczorek.

The suggestions list from the searchbar still looks the same:

The searchbar also supports opensearch autodiscovery [2], meaning that if you find a site that provides a search implementation, you can easily add that new search provider to the searchbar. Additionally, you can set a new shortcut for that newly defined search provider, so that you can use that webshortcut inside the normal konqueror location bar or anything that supports webshortcut.

Here are two screenshots of the searchbar detecting an opensearch autodiscovery link element and the searchbar asking for a webshortcut for the newly added searchbar:

Why do I need to bother to add autodiscovery feature that is rarely used by user? Well, I also don’t know, maybe just to make it comparable to other browsers like FF or arora or IE8 :p

[1].http://www.opensearch.org/Home
[2].http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Autodiscovery_in_HTML.2FXHTML

唉，KDE 桌面浏览器的希望阿，详细点 这里 。等rekonq做好都不知道猴年马月了，谁叫konqueror那群人死活不肯给webkit做事。

我试用了下，QQ空间输入验证码后就提示验证码错误，然后崩溃。。。。

打开cnbeta主页比Arora要流畅很多，打开gmail能使用正常视图，然后崩溃。。。

放张rekonq截图吧，

Olá, tirei screenshots destes 4 browsers, comparando o estilo visual e posição das ferramentas, alem também da página de cada um.
Opera 10 – More than Perfect

Google Chrome @ Linux – Just perfect

Mozilla Firefox – The Ultimate Children Web Browser

Konqueror 4.2.4 – A serious web browser

En ocasiones necesitamos encontrar letras o palabras dentro de una página web. Buscarlas de forma visual puede llevarnos tiempo y cometer el error de saltárnoslas. Para simplificar y facilitar esta labor,  existe la búsqueda rápida, que no es más que introducir los caracteres (normalmente palabras) en un cajetín de búsqueda y  el propio navegador se encarga de darnos los resultados. Este mecanismo tan práctico, sin embargo nos es ofrecido por los navegadores de distintas maneras y con diferentes opciones.

Mozilla Firefox y Flock.

Muestra la busqueda rápida desde una barra inferior “Findbar”, la cual podemos activar desde el menú Editar o desde los atajos de teclado.

- Búsqueda rápida sencilla se activa con la tecla / y esta muestra la barra de forma volátil.

- Buscar una palabra siguiente, anterior, resaltar todas y marcar para mostrar coincidencia de mayúsculas y minúsculas. Se activa con el atajo Control+F.

- Repetir Búsqueda. Memoriza la palabra introducida para que sin necesidad de mostrar la barra de búsqueda esta se repita incluso por cualquiera de las pestañas que tengamos abiertas. Se activa con el atajo Control+G.

Firefox y Flock

Para potenciar más la búsqueda Firefox puede buscar la palabra mientras la escribimos por todo el texto. Para ello si estamos en linux iremos al menú Editar–> Preferencias–> Avanzado–> tildar “Mostrar texto mientras se escribe”, Si estamos en Windows la ruta sería Herramientas–> Opciones–> Avanzado.

Otro de los potenciales de Firefox en este sentido son sus complementos que pueden ampliar las funciones de búsqueda. También muchas barras de búsqueda añaden esta función entre ellas la popular Google Toolbar.

Google Chrome/Chromium.

Al igual que Firefox podemos acceder con el atajo Ctrl+F y Ctrl+G para repetir la búsqueda, pero a diferencia de este el cajetín de búsqueda se muestra en un espacio más reducido en la parte superior derecha, incluyendo el número de resultados y dos botones con los iconos de ángulos para búsqueda anterior y posterior.

Google Chrome y Chromium

Lo práctico y lo sencillo en este caso se integran perfectamente.

Opera

Dispone de una tecla volatil “/” para las búsquedas, igualmente dispone de los atajos Ctrl+F y Ctrl+G para repetir la busqueda pero en una ventana superpuesta que entorpece el visionado de la búsqueda, sin embargo podemos agregar una barra en primer plano desde el menú Herramientas–> Barras de herramientas–> Personalizar…–> tildar “Barra de visualización”, el inconveniente a diferencia de Google Chrome o Firefox es que no dispone de un botón de cierre, con lo que habría que dejarla anclada o volver a la ruta descrita y destildarla.

Opera

Seamonkey.

Dispone de las mismas funciones que Firefox tanto en la búsqueda volátil “/”, Control+F y Control+G, pero al igual que Opera las muestra en una ventana superpuesta. Si queremos tener una barra de búsqueda en primer plano, debemos recurrir a barras que traigan búsquedas rápidas entre otras como Google Toolbar, la cual podemos ocultar gracias a los grippies laterales de Seamonkey o desde el atajo Control+F8.

Seamonkey

Epiphany.

Dispone las búsquedas en primer plano desde la barra inferior, la cual se activa igualmente con la tecla / (búsqueda volátil), Control+F (búsqueda) y Ctrl+G (repetir búsqueda).

Konqueror.

Muestra las búsquedas con una ventana superpuesta.

I have found a ton of tutorials teaching how to disable the context menu on browsers and in all of them I have found one flaw:

Does not work with Opera

It’s an anoying situation that got me thinking and searching for a solution through most part of the day and with no luck.

The function is simple:

$(document).ready(function()
{
$(document).bind(“contextmenu”, function(e)
{
return false;
});
});

and it works with (tested):

• Firefox (3 and 3.5 – Windows and Linux)
• Safari (Windows)
• Internet Explorer (All versions – Windows – amazing )
• Google Chrome (Windows)

and it does not work with (tested)

• Opera (Windows)
• Konqueror (Linux)
• Epiphany (Linux)

After a lot of research I have found why it does not work with Opera:

Opera (9.5) has an option to allow scripts to detect right-clicks, but it is disabled by default. Furthermore, Opera still doesn’t allow JavaScript to disable the browser’s default context menu which causes a usability conflict.

You can try to disable by disabling the mousedown event filtering only for Opera, but I do suggest a lot testing on this.

To complete just an extra note: this function does not bind the documents inside an iframe, so in this case you should complete the function by disabling the context menu in the iframe document as well.

As a KDE user, Konqueror is my favorite browser. It offers smooth integration into KDE, both in looks and features (e.g. using the Okular part to view PDFs). Its rendering engine is so good that it was forked into WebKit used in Apple’s Safari and Qt. One aspect Konqueror lacks in comparison to Firefox, though, is the support of plugins/addons of all kinds to add more features to the browser. There is a set of security and privacy enhancing plugins for Firefox I use myself and recommend to others. One of them is AdBlock Plus which uses a well-maintained list of URLs to block if you want to experience the net with less annoyance.

On the other side, Konqueror has a similar adblocking functionality built-in since KDE 3.5 (late 2005). In the configuration dialog, users can add fragments or regular expressions of URLs to be blocked. Maintaining such a list yourself is quite cumbersome, especially if you have accounts on several computers. At least since March 2007 there has been a feature request in KDE’s bug tracking system to add an automatic updater to Konqueror’s ad-filtering.

Last weekend, I started to scratch the itch and implemented an automatic filter list updater. Luckily, the internal format of AdBlock entries in Konqueror matches the one use by AdBlock Plus, except that some advanced features are not (yet) supported. Based on the then-current KDE 4.2.4 code I made changes to both kdelibs and kdebase. The former one contains the KHTML component including the actual filter, the latter contains the code for Konqueror’s settings GUI.

The changes I made to kdelibs work as follows: Read the khtmlrc configuration file to get a list of filter files following the format used by AdBlock Plus. My example configuration file contains several lists from easylist.adblock.org. The filter list files are downloaded and cached if no local copy is available or if it is outdated. Each filter list file is loaded and added to Konqueror’s current filter list each time the browser is started. The user-configured filter list is not modified, as the changes occur in memory only.

If you edit your khtmlrc manually to add new filter lists, this works already fine without GUI. For a better usability experience, I modified Konqueror’s settings dialog so that users can select from a list of preconfigured filter lists (currently, all lists from EasyList) which to actually use. Additionally, the time interval to refresh the lists can be configured.

I refrained from adding an option to add, modify or delete list entries in the GUI. This is simply for two reasons: (1) Users may tend to enter filter lists that do not follow the format (e.g. from other adblocking filter sites) and (2) the list of available filter lists does not change that often that it cannot be changed in the next monthly update of KDE. If users are eager to add more lists not officially approved, they can still edit their configuration files manually.

All patches and an example configuration file are available from bug report 143495 in KDE’s bug tracking system. If you have constructive suggestions, please add you comments to the bug report (do not post comments in this blog, that won’t help). To support the patch in getting approved and added to the official code base, vote for the bug (login required).

Microsoft soll Windows 7 standardmäßig mit dem Internet Explorer 8 ausliefern, soll aber auch Alternativen im Angebot haben. So soll der Endverbraucher automatisch andere Browser wie Firefox, Safari oder Opera angeboten bekommen. Außerdem sollen andere Browser auch als Standard eingestellt werden können und der Internet Explorer auch deinstalliert werden können.

Bueno, despues de tanto intentar installar el plugin de Adobe Flash Player tanto en Konqueror como en Firefox, resulta que de alguna manera inexplicable el plugin se instalo, y digo inexplicable porque probe tantas cosas y siempre el mismo error: “your architecture ‘x86_64 ‘ is not supported by the adobe flash player installer” pero luego de alguna forma inicie secion en Kubuntu y dije bueno de nuevo a seguir probando y Puff!!! funcionaba (No a la perfeccion debo aclarar XD) el bendito plugin.

Al ver que funcionaba me dispuse a probar y se me vino a la mente… Youtube. Entre al sitio, elegi el video, empezo a reproducirse y… desastre!!! Sin Audio!!! por un momento pense “Ala gran, a seguir probando”, pero resulta que despues de una busuqeda en Google de menos de 10 minutos, encontre la solucion (encontre varias por cierto pero esta es la mejor):

• Clic en el icono del volumen en la bandeja del sistema
• Abrír el mezclador.
• Colocar control de volumen de las señal PCM al maximo.

Y listo el problema estaba resuelto. En cuanto a como instalar el plugin de flash mmmm prueben prueben y prueben, se que no es una respuesta muy alentadora pero no hay otra opcion aunque de aconsejar alguna debere decir esta:

antes de probar cualquier otra cosa en KPackageKit busquen: flashplugin-nonfree, si no esta instalado, instalenlo.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Esta creo que particularmente es la que me funciono a mi, ya que ahora flash player funciona tanto en firefox cono en Konqueror.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree