Fedora 10 and flash?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I must share this report with you.
>> I don't use Ubuntu but I installed it on one PC in a lab for students
>> and kids to learn using it (we have half Fedora and half Ubuntu lab).
>> I opened Firefox and went to www.redhatmagazine.com and immediately I
>> got a pop up window with a choice to install Adobe Flash, Swhdec or
>> Gnash plugin. I was amazed how well this worked and that I had a
>> choice to pick any one plugin that I believe it better.
>> I know about Fedora's upstream mentality but I must take my hat to
>> Ubuntu devels for making their "Ubuntu plugin service" work great. I
>> know that this is what Mozilla should have made but with their track
>> for supporting linux isn't the best one.
>
>
> Are you volunteering to create the necessary firefox extension and the
> plugin finder service implementation which mimics what Ubuntu is
> doing?  Can you find the code that implements the service as they
> provide it for review?  Until we know how they do it, and what data
> they use to do it, we don't really have a starting point worth talking
> about as to whether we can do what they do.  I would have some
> concerns about running a central Fedora service, because any service
> Fedora would run would not be able to point at or reference a 3rd
> party repository at all..which would sort of defeat the point i think.
>
> I've also already had conversations with upstream Mozilla people
> concerning enhancing the upstream plugin finder... upstream
> contribution is welcome... its just a matter of people working with
> them.
>
> I'm not even sure we would need to run a service actually, if a client
> side firefox extension could intercept the plugin request and
> translate it into a packaging provides to send to packagekit.  This is
> something to bring up with the packagekit developers.
>
> Regardless of whether this was upstream code or a Fedora specific
> extension or service...
> someone who cares about this would need to step forward to work on it
> or it's not going to go anywhere.
>
> -jef
>

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashExperienceIntrepid

Have you maybe also talked with Ubuntu devels that made Ubuntu "Plugin
finder service" ?
Maybe they are willing to contribute their code and expertise to
upstream Mozilla for this ?

Valent.


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