On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > I contacted ubuntu-develpers and here is the answer I got: from Alexander Sack: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-June/025472.htm https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-June/025474.html Does anybody know Alexander? Cheers, 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
