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Zotero is a great open-source bibliography manager that comes in the form of a plugin to firefox. It has a lot of great features, such as openoffice and word integration, automatic web page backup and pdf retrieval, full-text pdf indexing and searching, and many other features. Considering it is an open-source product, and arguably the best open source bibliography manager available (perhaps the best bibliography manager period), I think it would be great to integrate it into konqueror.

This may be considered more of a zotero wishlist item, but considering the konqueror market share I find it unlikely that is will ever happen from their end. So if it is going to happen it will probably have to be from the KDE end. KDE has no real good dedicated bibliography manager, and the only good bibliography manager, tellico, lacks word processor integration. So rather than reinventing the wheel, it might be good to base it on the hard work of the Zotero group.

Konqueror has a bunch of advantage over firefox that would make zotero far more powerful. First, in addition to be a web browser it is also a file manager, making it easy to jump to the location of stored files without leaving the program. Second, with a zotero kio slave navigating the citations and articles with various different views would be much easier, including thumbnails of articles and enlarged embedded views of files. Third, there is the embedded okular viewer for pdfs that could make viewing the pdfs inside zotero much easier. Fourth, there is strigi which could be used to index the pdfs. Fifth, making a stand-alone program for zotero that is multi-platform and has an embedded web page and pdf viewer would be much easier.

I doubt that this will ever become reality, but I am a big fan of Zotero and thus strongly support this wish. I believe it will become a standard tool in academia and beyond and certainly has the power to draw lots of people to whichever browser or desktop environment it runs in.

I love Zotero too, and would love to see it spun off into a proper application (preferably in Qt ) but having it in Konqueror definitely sounds like a great place for it as well. +1

To be able to use Zotero as one of the main apps for my work, I had to use Firefox, but I think Konqueror would be far better for this purpose.