On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:25:42 +0100"Sébastien Ballesté-Antich" <sballeste@xxxxxxxxx> dijo: > On 2007-03-01 23:36:30 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:> > See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168933 for a bug tracking> > the development of a browser plugin. You can add a comment there or file> > it as a separate request.> > On 2007/3/2, Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@xxxxxxxx>:> I don't> know if it actually works, but it could provide a good> > starting point (and frankly, I'd prefer a nicely integrated evince> > plug-in rather than that memory-hog of the acrobat reader plugin). > > Thanks, finally I made a request in the evince/enhancement tracking system.> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168933#c14 When I first installed Ubuntu Hoary amd64 a year and a half ago on this(then) brand new laptop it installed 64-bit Firefox, and PDF web sitesalways opened with Evince. Since then I have upgraded to Breezy,Dapper, and now Edgy. I also got Adobe Reader 7.08 installed about thebeginning of Dapper, and at that time I also set it up as the pluginfor Firefox. I left it alone, but after upgrading from Dapper to Edgyit got broken. At first, I couldn't even launch it. Eventually I foundthe answer on the Ubuntu forums -- a missing library. But even aftergetting it to launch, the menus for Reader in Firefox had squares wherethere was supposed to be text, including even the print dialog box. Thefont was fine if I just launched it separately. So I decided I did notwant to use it in Firefox any more -- like you, I preferred the muchquicker Evince for the browser. At the same time I was getting tired ofFlash, which I had installed with nspluginwrapper. So I uninstallednspluginwrapper and reinstalled mozplugger. Presto! I was back toEvince. Not only that, but I was finally able to view Powerpoint slidesand Word docs in the browser with OpenOffice, something I had neverbeen able to get working with nspluginwrapper. And I discovered that,while mozplugger can't get Flash working in 64-bit Firefox, it does doso for Opera, which is a 32-bit browser that I had to install with--force-architecture. So now I have everything just the way I want it-- Firefox no longer annoys me with Flash junk, but if I want to seeFlash I can do so with Opera. Adobe Reader is now just a standalone appthat I use occasionally when I need to view an editable PDF file.Firefox opens PDF files with Evince, Powerpoint and Word docs withOpenOffice, and movies with mplayer, although it launches mplayeroutside of the browser. Someday someone is going to come up with Smellovision (tm), and we willbe treated to smells so web designers can give us the true feel of alocation. There will be a browser plugin for it, of course, andeveryone will start exclaiming how it enhances the web experience. Atfirst it will be available only for Internet Explorer because theSmellovision (tm) people will make a pact with Bill so it can be usedon on Microsoft products. A year or so later the open source communitywill hack up a way to get it running in Firefox, Opera, and otherbrowsers on Linux. I hope by then I am dead._______________________________________________gnome-list mailing listgnome-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
