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    <title>Plugins Settings</title>

    <para>
        Kipi is an Image Plugin Interface. It is an interface that is supported by a number of image viewer/editor applications. By providing this interface, &digikam; can take advantage of many plugins that are written to work with any application that implements the Kipi interface.
    </para>

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    <para>
        If your operating system has the Kipi plugins package installed, you will see a list of available plugins. Select those that you want to use and they will be loaded into &digikam;. The plugins will appear as new menu entries in the main menu bar and in the context menu for thumbnails.
    </para>

    <para>
        Keyboard shortcuts to actions that plugins perform can be set up in the <menuchoice><guimenu>Setting</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Shortcuts</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu.
    </para>

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