On Wednesday 10 June 2009 17:07:59 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Michal Vyskocil schrieb:
Dne neděle 07 Červen 2009 12:44:21 Wolfgang Rosenauer napsal(a):
Ubuntu does this, why doesn't openSuse ?
Now how did Ubuntu solve that issue? They have an addon called ubufox which is installed by default and contains (amongst others) a modified plugin finder service client code which connects to a custom webservice where there is an alternative database pointing to Ubuntu's deb packages supporting that certain mimetypes.
That is obviously doable for openSUSE as well. It's just only a small feature which involves quite a bit of work. When I checked this I saw that Ubuntu seems to have quite some contributors to that kind of stuff while in our (openSUSE) case I feel I'd be the only one having to implement it and the time I could invest in it is limited. It also involves a backend service where I'm not sure where to run it. (I could actually use my personal server but I'm not sure if that is appropriate.)
There's an opensuse-community.org, which should be used.
As much as I'd love to polish our Firefox with that kind of stuff I'm not sure if and when I'd be able to do that work including the organizational stuff behind it.
What about reusing of existing Restrited_Formats on opensuse-community? Firefox should load a page Restricted_Formats/%{suse_version} and let one click install to handle a rest.
Actually I decided to work on an extension resampling code of ubufox which would make it possible to invoke the installation from Firefox.
The database for the plugins needs to be maintained manually though as our repositories don't have information about what is a Netscape plugin and which mimetypes are supported (what Ubuntu actually has).
The backend service is basically working already and I'm working on the client implementation now. Once I have something which works in combination we'll see if there is a home for it somewhere.
Wolfgang
I wonder if the FireFox community would be interested in some sort of collaboration with the Linux community? Perhaps they have a centralized list of plugins that the ubufox|susefox tool could use as a repository list? Leslie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org