On Jan 29, 2008 12:29 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/1/11 Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi all, > > > > Currently, we don't install any free flash implementations by default, > > but now that swfdec-gnome has become part of GNOME(1), I would like to > > propose that we install swfdec-gnome (& possibly swfdec-mozilla) by > > default starting with F9. > > > > (1) > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2008-January/msg00001.html > > > > Why not fix this bug[1]? > My experience with swfdec is great! I really love that we have an > option to watch online videos (there other things beside porn, believe > it or not) and not use proprietary plugins for that. I have tested it > and you can see my posts[2][3] that it works really porely on most > sites. It works on youtube.com and that is about it. It doensn't even > work with www.fedoratv.com :( > > From users point of view this would be a mixed bag. If fedora makes > some how to include all the codecs needed for swfdec to work even then > only youtube is not something that will make users who want things to > JustWork happy. > It would be bad to "force" users to use swfdec if it works porly and > not give them some easy way to switch it to propritary one if they > find this one not working for them. I see that as a problem because if > firefox has something that says can play flash it is happy - it > doens't care that it actually does nothing (like swfdec without > codecs). Any ideas? > And it would be really nice if the bug from the beginning gets fixed :) > > Cheers, > Valent. > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242175 > [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-January/msg00095.html > [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-January/msg00106.html Here is the bz for this issue; https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430629 -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
