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[openFATE 306475] modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos
- From: fate_noreply@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:13:58 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <feature-306475-11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Feature changed by: Stephan Kulow (coolo)
Feature #306475, revision 11
Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from
openSUSE repos
openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Desirable
+ Info Provider: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer)
Requested by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer)
Description:
Firefox' plugin finder service searches for missing plugins at mozilla.
org and can't provide useful things usually for Linux.
The plugin finder service should be improved to know about plugins
available for openSUSE and should invoke an installer on request.
Discussion:
#1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-06-25 08:39:51)
A short overview what's needed to make this feature as complete as
possible:
1) client support in Firefox to ask a webservice for available plugins
and hook into the package installer to install the chosen plugin
2) a webservice which provides the required data to Firefox
3) a job which fills the webservice's database with available plugins
The code for 1. and 2. is done in the Firefox extension "susefox" now.
It's already pretty complete and usable (only some minor issues left
and translations missing).
For 2. a hosting platform is needed where I'm not sure if it should be
opensuse.org or opensuse-community.org as we could refer to more
plugins for the latter probably.
For 3. nothing is really available yet. The reason is that our package
metadata is missing information we would need to detect mozilla
plugins. For the current implementation the database is created
manually but I consider this pretty much impossible for a production
service.
#2: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) (2009-07-08 17:49:42)
Some of the plugins (Flash, Java) could have a pre-associated
repository it installs jsut for that one installation and then closes
it, or if the vendor has a repository then maybe it would connect (and
keep) to their repository so updates will be checked for automatically.
Providing a list of open source and proprietary choces will help inform
users of FOSS alternatives they may otherwise not know of or think
about.
Ubuntu has a great implementation of this in Firefox. I have not tried
"susefox" but in my recent installation of openSUSE 11.1 Gnome there
was nothing helpful regarding installing Firefox plugins.
+ #3: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-08-12 12:13:13)
+ didn't you already work on this?
--
openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/306475
Feature #306475, revision 11
Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from
openSUSE repos
openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Desirable
+ Info Provider: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer)
Requested by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer)
Description:
Firefox' plugin finder service searches for missing plugins at mozilla.
org and can't provide useful things usually for Linux.
The plugin finder service should be improved to know about plugins
available for openSUSE and should invoke an installer on request.
Discussion:
#1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-06-25 08:39:51)
A short overview what's needed to make this feature as complete as
possible:
1) client support in Firefox to ask a webservice for available plugins
and hook into the package installer to install the chosen plugin
2) a webservice which provides the required data to Firefox
3) a job which fills the webservice's database with available plugins
The code for 1. and 2. is done in the Firefox extension "susefox" now.
It's already pretty complete and usable (only some minor issues left
and translations missing).
For 2. a hosting platform is needed where I'm not sure if it should be
opensuse.org or opensuse-community.org as we could refer to more
plugins for the latter probably.
For 3. nothing is really available yet. The reason is that our package
metadata is missing information we would need to detect mozilla
plugins. For the current implementation the database is created
manually but I consider this pretty much impossible for a production
service.
#2: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) (2009-07-08 17:49:42)
Some of the plugins (Flash, Java) could have a pre-associated
repository it installs jsut for that one installation and then closes
it, or if the vendor has a repository then maybe it would connect (and
keep) to their repository so updates will be checked for automatically.
Providing a list of open source and proprietary choces will help inform
users of FOSS alternatives they may otherwise not know of or think
about.
Ubuntu has a great implementation of this in Firefox. I have not tried
"susefox" but in my recent installation of openSUSE 11.1 Gnome there
was nothing helpful regarding installing Firefox plugins.
+ #3: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-08-12 12:13:13)
+ didn't you already work on this?
--
openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/306475
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