Setting up del.icio.us in Konqueror
I am personally am a big fan of the del.icio.us social bookmarking web site. One great thing about it is that it is all stored on the Internet, thus making it easy to keep your bookmarks synchronized between computers and web browsers. However, there is no official plug-in for Konqueror. Also, Konqueror doesn't have support for bookmarklets. Fortunately it is possible to get Konqueror working with del.icio.us using service menus.
1. Download the lastest konqil.icio.us from KDE-Apps into your home directory. Version 1.9 is used for this article.
2. Open up Konsole (K Menu>System>Konsole on Kubuntu) or your terminal emulator of choice.
3. You can choose to install the service menus on just your personal user account or on the whole system. Remember to change out the file versions if they are different though.
Only Current Account
tar xvfz konqil.icio.us-1.9.tar.gz
cd konqil.icio.us/src
mkdir ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
cp del.icio.us del.icio.us.desktop ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
chmod u+x ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/del.icio.us
kate ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/del.icio.us
System Wide
tar xvfz konqil.icio.us-1.9.tar.gz
cd konqil.icio.us/src
sudo mkdir /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
sudo cp del.icio.us del.icio.us.desktop /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
sudo chmod u+x /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/del.icio.us
sudo kate /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/del.icio.us
4. You should now be at a Kate window with a configuration text file. Find the line marked $username = ""; (this is on line 38 for me) and put your username inside the quotation marks.
5. If you are doing a system wide setup, you must now run sudo kate /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/del.icio.us.desktop. Once you are in Kate, replace all instances of $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/ with /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
Now, you can restart Konqueror. Go to any web page and right click. From here you can navigate to Actions>del.icio.us. This gives you a menu where you can do about anything you need to with del.icio.us.
Let me know if you have any problems or if anything isn't clear. Also, some may copyrights belong to the author of konqil.icio.us as I was simply adding to and clarifying the original installation instructions.
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Heh, nice work dude. Glad you like my work ;). Actually, with konqil.icio.us 2.0, you set them user name when you first use the tool. It writes your user name to a file. You can also change user name later using the konqil.icio.us service menu.
@Tim: Great, I'll have to try it out to update the article. You've already released two versions since I first wrote this article… that's pretty amazing!
Hi Jake, one minor correction: Konqueror does support "bookmarklets", they are called Minitools and are in the Tools/Minitools menu. I know, not a handy place, but better than nothing
BTW, (shameless plug) did you check out KDelicious? It has a few more features than konqil.icio.us
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