KDE/FirefoxIntegration

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feature	status	comments
File dialogs	done (11.2)	all file dialogs should work and be KDE dialogs
Application selection dialog	done (11.2)	(KOpenWithDialog)
Mimetype handling	done (11.2)	KDE file associations are read and used
KDE application launching	done (11.2)	should net-aware KDE applications get the URL or should Firefox download first?
Protocol handlers	done (11.2)	mailto, irc should work, others need checking
Proxy settings	done (11.2)	Proxy settings from KDE are read and used
Widget style	kind of	Will be themed just like any other Gtk application
Icon theme	kind of	KDE icons are used as a part of Gtk KDE integration
Notifications	done (11.2)	Implemented directly, has some technical advantages over MozillaFirefox-kde4-addon (translations, better configurability)
Set as desktop background	pending (unlikely for 11.2)	not very important, not easy to do with 4.3 Plasma, maybe later
Download manager	pending (unlikely for 11.2)	there is an extension called FlashGot that is supposed to have KGet support
No instant apply	done (11.2)	Preferences dialogs have apply/cancel buttons just like other KDE dialogs
Dialog button order	done (11.2)	Firefox dialogs use KDE button order, needs checking if some dialogs are not wrong
Password storage	pending (unlikely for 11.2)	LL: KWallet support can be considered a feature, Firefox has its own storage. See Extension that add KWallet support.
RSS feeds	done (11.2)	support for adding feeds to Akregator
default KDE browser	done (11.2)	support for Firefox asking and setting itself as the default KDE browser
KSpell support	not done	Support spell checking via KSpell in text forms of html pages. LL: This seems to be too much work for too little gain, Firefox has its own spellcheck that seems to work quite well.
Print dialog	not done	LL: This could be quite some work and there don't seem to be big advantages from using the KDE4 print dialog instead.

Testing Repository

Starting with openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 the KDE integration has become part of the official Firefox packages. For older openSUSE releases it is possible to install them from the home:llunak:mozilla repository, which rebuilds the Firefox packages from the mozilla repository against the KDE repository.

For openSUSE 11.1 and KDE from the KDE4:Factory repo add:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/llunak:/mozilla/KDE_KDE4_Factory_Desktop_openSUSE_11.1/

For plain openSUSE 11.1, i.e. KDE 4.1.3, add:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/llunak:/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1/

Run sudo zypper dup after adding the repo or use YaST to upgrade Firefox. Make sure zypper actually installed the needed package mozilla-xulrunner191-kde4.

Please test extensively and report any issues back to Novell's bugzilla. Assign bugs to llunak [at] novell.com.