Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Rachel Greenham (rachel@linuxgrrls.org) [021006 13:18]: ::> ::Again, I see the same in Gentoo. My guess is that Konqueror's doing ::something funky and not using the plugin. When you configure java in ::Konqueror, you tell it where the "java" executable is rather than supply ::the plugin. Maybe it's doing some fancy kpart thing to embed a normal ::Java process in a Konqueror window, not sure. If you don't do that, but ::instead include it in the Netscape plugins path to run it as a normal ::plugin... well, it won't even pick it up (fails to initialize?).
Yeah, it could be doing something that Mozilla doesn't do. I have /opt/Mozilla/plugins in the list to check. But I do specify in Konq's configs to look at /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1/bin/java. *shrug* I don't know. As I said. I'm not a programmer so I can't offer any meaningful explanation. :)
I *am* a programmer, but I'm not a KDE programmer, nor even a Linux programmer, just a Java programmer :-). My best guess is that Konqueror is invoking Java as a separate process and capturing it inside one of its own windows, whereas a plugin runs within the parent's process and thus has a much more intimate relationship. -- Rachel