On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
