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Mozilla's Mycroft project provide a large number of search engines for browsers. To add the search engine to the browser search bar, you just have to click the link and it is immediately available for use. Konqueror, however, does not seem to support the opensearch protocol used by the website, so the search engines cannot be installed. I think it would be very useful if konqueror was able to import these search engines.

It shouldn't be too hard to make it import into what KDE calls "web shortcuts". Due to KDE's amazingness that means they'll also be available in KRunner too.

I'll take a look.

Had a poke round the page with firebug. Konqueror needs to handle the javascript call window.external.addSearchProvider(url)
Window.external means "built in JS function in the browser"

This URL points to a .xml file which follows the specification outlined here:
http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1

There are therefore 2 almost independant tasks. We need someone to add the JS function to konqueror (as a plugin?) and we need code to read the xml file and add an appropriate entry to Web Shortcuts.

Arora now supports this standard and Konqueror must do the same. On the other side, web shorcuts code must be fixed because there are some encoding bugs not fixed yet.

I thought I saw this before on Bugzilla. Anyway, since it is a standard that Arora supports, so should Konqueror.

Interestingly, there is a directory /usr/share/kde4/apps/konqueror/opensearch on my system and it contains the OpenSearch definition for Google.

I tried dropping another profile in there, but to no avail.

Any ideas why this directory is there? It is installed by the konq-plugins package.