On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > 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. -- 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-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
