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diff --git a/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.docbook b/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.docbook new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2753da77908 --- /dev/null +++ b/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/index.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,231 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" +"dtd/kdex.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> +<!ENTITY % British-English "INCLUDE" +> <!-- change language only here --> +]> + +<article lang="&language;"> +<articleinfo> + +<authorgroup> +<author +>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author> +<author +>&Yves.Arrouye; &Yves.Arrouye.mail;</author> +<othercredit role="translator" +><firstname +>John</firstname +><surname +>Knight</surname +><affiliation +><address +><email +>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email +></address +></affiliation +><contrib +>Conversion to British English</contrib +></othercredit +> +</authorgroup> + +<date +>2002-10-16</date> +<releaseinfo +>3.1</releaseinfo> + +<keywordset> +<keyword +>KDE</keyword> +<keyword +>KControl</keyword> +<keyword +>enhanced browsing</keyword> +<keyword +>web shortcuts</keyword> +<keyword +>browsing</keyword> +</keywordset> + +</articleinfo> +<sect1 id="ebrowse"> + +<title +>Web Shortcuts</title> + +<sect2 id="ebrowse-intro"> + +<title +>Introduction</title> + +<para +>&konqueror; offers some features to enhance your browsing experience. One such feature is <emphasis +>Web Shortcuts</emphasis +>.</para> + +<para +>You may already have noticed that &kde; is very Internet friendly. For example, you can click on the <guimenuitem +>Run</guimenuitem +> menu item or type the keyboard shortcut assigned to that command (<keycombo action="simul" +><keycap +>Alt</keycap +><keycap +>F2</keycap +></keycombo +>, unless you have changed it) and type in a <acronym +>URI</acronym +>. <footnote +><para +>Uniform Resource Identifier. A standard way of referring to a resource such as a file on your computer, a World Wide Web address, an email address, <abbrev +>etc...</abbrev +>.</para +></footnote +></para> + +<para +>Web shortcuts, on the other hand, let you come up with new pseudo <acronym +>URL</acronym +> schemes, or shortcuts, that basically let you <emphasis +>parameterise</emphasis +> commonly used <acronym +>URI</acronym +>s. For example, if you like the Google search engine, you can configure KDE so that a pseudo <acronym +>URL</acronym +> scheme like <emphasis +>gg</emphasis +> will trigger a search on Google. This way, typing <userinput +>gg:<replaceable +>my query</replaceable +></userinput +> will search for <replaceable +>my query</replaceable +> on Google.</para> + +<note +><para +>One can see why we call these pseudo <acronym +>URL</acronym +> schemes. They are used like a <acronym +>URL</acronym +> scheme, but the input is not properly <acronym +>URL</acronym +> encoded, so one will type <userinput +>google:kde apps</userinput +> and not <userinput +>google:kde+apps</userinput +>.</para +></note> + +<para +>You can use web shortcuts wherever you would normally use <acronym +>URI</acronym +>s. Shortcuts for several search engines should already be configured on your system, but you can add new keywords and change or delete existing ones in the enhanced browsing control module. </para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2 id="ebrowse-use"> + +<title +>Use</title> + +<para +>There is a single tab in this control module. The title of the tab is <guilabel +>Keywords</guilabel +>. This tab features two main boxes, one for Internet Keywords and one for web shortcuts.</para> + +<sect3 id="ebrowse-srch-use"> + +<title +>Web Shortcuts</title> + +<para +>The descriptive names of defined web shortcuts are shown in a listbox. As with other lists in &kde;, you can click on a column heading to toggle the sort order between ascending and descending, and you can resize the columns.</para> + +<para +>If you double-click on a specific entry in the list of defined search providers, the details for that entry are shown in a popup dialogue. In addition to the descriptive name for the item, you can also see the <acronym +>URI</acronym +> which is used, as well as the associated shortcuts which you can type anywhere in &kde; where <acronym +>URI</acronym +>s are expected. A given search provider can have multiple shortcuts, each separated by a comma.</para> + +<para +>The text boxes are used not only for displaying information about an item in the list of web shortcuts, but also for modifying or adding new items.</para> + +<para +>You can change the contents of either the <guilabel +>Search URI</guilabel +> or the <guilabel +>URI Shortcuts</guilabel +> text box. Click <guibutton +>OK</guibutton +> to save your changes or <guibutton +>Cancel</guibutton +> to exit the dialogue with no changes.</para> + +<para +>If you examine the contents of the <guilabel +>Search URI</guilabel +> text box, you will find that most, if not all of the entries have a <option +>\{@}</option +> in them. This sequence of two characters acts as a parameter, which is to say that they are replaced by whatever you happen to type after the colon character that is between a shortcut and its parameter. Let's consider some examples to clarify this idea.</para> + +<para +>Suppose that the <acronym +>URI</acronym +> is <userinput +>http://www.google.com/search?q=\{@}</userinput +>, and <userinput +>gg</userinput +> is a shortcut to this <acronym +>URI</acronym +>. Then, typing <userinput +>gg:<replaceable +>alpha</replaceable +></userinput +> is equivalent to <userinput +>http://www.google.com/search?q=<replaceable +>alpha</replaceable +></userinput +>. You could type anything after the <userinput +>:</userinput +> character; whatever you have typed simply replaces the <option +>\{@}</option +> characters, after being converted to the appropriate character set for the search provider and then properly <acronym +>URL</acronym +>-encoded. Only the <option +>\{@}</option +> part of the search <acronym +>URI</acronym +> is touched, the rest of it is supposed to be properly <acronym +>URL</acronym +>-encoded already and is left as is.</para> + +<para +>You can also have shortcuts without parameters. Suppose the <acronym +>URI</acronym +> was <emphasis +>file:/home/me/mydocs/kofficefiles/kword</emphasis +> and the shortcut was <emphasis +>mykword</emphasis +>. Then, typing <userinput +>mykword:</userinput +> is the same as typing the complete <acronym +>URI</acronym +>. Note that there is nothing after the colon when typing the shortcut, but the colon is still required in order for the shortcut to be recognised as such.</para> + +<para +>By now, you will have understood that even though these shortcuts are called web shortcuts, they really are shortcuts to parameterised <acronym +>URI</acronym +>s, which can point not only to web sites like search engines but also to anything else that can be pointed to by a <acronym +>URI</acronym +>. Web shortcuts are a very powerful feature of navigation in &kde;.</para> + +</sect3> + +</sect2> + +</sect1> + +</article>
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