Feature changed by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Feature #306475, revision 3 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306475, revision 7 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos - openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable 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. -   -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Feature #306475, revision 12 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? + #4: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-08-12 19:14:40) + From the list in my initial comment number 1. and 2. is done. + I still consider number 3. important as maintaining the database + manually requires someone to do that. I've posted a few times to + opensuse-factory to get someone knowing about RPM/metadata/repositories + involved to find out how it could be automated but there was no + progress unfortunately. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) Feature #306475, revision 14 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Important 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? #4: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-08-12 19:14:40) From the list in my initial comment number 1. and 2. is done. I still consider number 3. important as maintaining the database manually requires someone to do that. I've posted a few times to opensuse-factory to get someone knowing about RPM/metadata/repositories involved to find out how it could be automated but there was no progress unfortunately. + #6: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 22:55:23) + I run all my beloved plugins from mozilla.org and I don't want to miss + them (I would certanly not use openSUSE any more). Because this + sentence is NOT true for me: + > mozilla.org...can't provide useful things usually for Linux. + I vote against! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: James PEARSON (jpearson1) Feature #306475, revision 17 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Important 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? #4: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-08-12 19:14:40) From the list in my initial comment number 1. and 2. is done. I still consider number 3. important as maintaining the database manually requires someone to do that. I've posted a few times to opensuse-factory to get someone knowing about RPM/metadata/repositories involved to find out how it could be automated but there was no progress unfortunately. #6: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 22:55:23) I run all my beloved plugins from mozilla.org and I don't want to miss them (I would certanly not use openSUSE any more). Because this sentence is NOT true for me:

mozilla.org...can't provide useful things usually for Linux. I vote against!

#7: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 23:04:02) (reply to #6) Sorry, it's to late at night for me.... I missmatched: plugin - extension I love my _extensions_ from mozilla.org ....   + #8: James PEARSON (jpearson1) (2009-09-24 23:09:27) + # fresh install at xxxx@linux-8xpa:~> date Thu Sep 24 22:33:35 CEST 200 + # added Packman & VLC &1 zypper dup # If I click on a url using + Konqueror requring Flash I get the following message No plugin found + for 'Shockwave Flash file'? Do you want to download one from openSUSE + This didn't work so I tried Firefox and played around abit I finally + installed flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm from the adobe site + I now get an image but no voices watching video Sound works - I can + play DVDs and mp3 music on v11.2 + Can anyone provide instructions on how to get flash to work? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Feature #306475, revision 19 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Important 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? #4: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-08-12 19:14:40) From the list in my initial comment number 1. and 2. is done. I still consider number 3. important as maintaining the database manually requires someone to do that. I've posted a few times to opensuse-factory to get someone knowing about RPM/metadata/repositories involved to find out how it could be automated but there was no progress unfortunately. #6: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 22:55:23) I run all my beloved plugins from mozilla.org and I don't want to miss them (I would certanly not use openSUSE any more). Because this sentence is NOT true for me:

mozilla.org...can't provide useful things usually for Linux. I vote against!

#7: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 23:04:02) (reply to #6) Sorry, it's to late at night for me.... I missmatched: plugin - extension I love my _extensions_ from mozilla.org ....   #8: James PEARSON (jpearson1) (2009-09-24 23:09:27) # fresh install at xxxx@linux-8xpa:~> date Thu Sep 24 22:33:35 CEST 200 # added Packman & VLC &1 zypper dup # If I click on a url using Konqueror requring Flash I get the following message No plugin found for 'Shockwave Flash file'? Do you want to download one from openSUSE This didn't work so I tried Firefox and played around abit I finally installed flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm from the adobe site I now get an image but no voices watching video Sound works - I can play DVDs and mp3 music on v11.2 Can anyone provide instructions on how to get flash to work? #9: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-09-25 14:04:21) (reply to #8) James, features is not a support tool. Please raise your issue in appropriate forums or mailinglists. + #10: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-09-25 14:07:54) + Feature is implemented. + Plugin Finder Service is online for 11.2 but needs improvements and + should get integrated into software portal to make manual database + maintenance needless. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #306475, revision 22 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Important + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Important Info Provider: (Novell) 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? #4: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-08-12 19:14:40) From the list in my initial comment number 1. and 2. is done. I still consider number 3. important as maintaining the database manually requires someone to do that. I've posted a few times to opensuse-factory to get someone knowing about RPM/metadata/repositories involved to find out how it could be automated but there was no progress unfortunately. #6: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 22:55:23) I run all my beloved plugins from mozilla.org and I don't want to miss them (I would certanly not use openSUSE any more). Because this sentence is NOT true for me:

mozilla.org...can't provide useful things usually for Linux. I vote against!

#7: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 23:04:02) (reply to #6) Sorry, it's to late at night for me.... I missmatched: plugin - extension I love my _extensions_ from mozilla.org ....   #8: James PEARSON (jpearson1) (2009-09-24 23:09:27) # fresh install at xxxx@linux-8xpa:~> date Thu Sep 24 22:33:35 CEST 200 # added Packman & VLC &1 zypper dup # If I click on a url using Konqueror requring Flash I get the following message No plugin found for 'Shockwave Flash file'? Do you want to download one from openSUSE This didn't work so I tried Firefox and played around abit I finally installed flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm from the adobe site I now get an image but no voices watching video Sound works - I can play DVDs and mp3 music on v11.2 Can anyone provide instructions on how to get flash to work? #9: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-09-25 14:04:21) (reply to #8) James, features is not a support tool. Please raise your issue in appropriate forums or mailinglists. #10: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-09-25 14:07:54) Feature is implemented. Plugin Finder Service is online for 11.2 but needs improvements and should get integrated into software portal to make manual database maintenance needless. #11: Roman Bysh (romanator) (2009-09-26 16:21:41) Can the plugin finder service include an image and name of the missing plugins?  -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306475, revision 24 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos - Hackweek V: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: Done Priority - Requester: Important - openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation - Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Important - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed - Priority - Requester: Important Info Provider: (Novell) 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? #4: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-08-12 19:14:40) From the list in my initial comment number 1. and 2. is done. I still consider number 3. important as maintaining the database manually requires someone to do that. I've posted a few times to opensuse-factory to get someone knowing about RPM/metadata/repositories involved to find out how it could be automated but there was no progress unfortunately. #6: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 22:55:23) I run all my beloved plugins from mozilla.org and I don't want to miss them (I would certanly not use openSUSE any more). Because this sentence is NOT true for me:

mozilla.org...can't provide useful things usually for Linux. I vote against!

#7: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-18 23:04:02) (reply to #6) Sorry, it's to late at night for me.... I missmatched: plugin - extension I love my _extensions_ from mozilla.org .... -   #8: James PEARSON (jpearson1) (2009-09-24 23:09:27) # fresh install at xxxx@linux-8xpa:~> date Thu Sep 24 22:33:35 CEST 200 # added Packman & VLC &1 zypper dup # If I click on a url using Konqueror requring Flash I get the following message No plugin found for 'Shockwave Flash file'? Do you want to download one from openSUSE This didn't work so I tried Firefox and played around abit I finally installed flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm from the adobe site I now get an image but no voices watching video Sound works - I can play DVDs and mp3 music on v11.2 Can anyone provide instructions on how to get flash to work? #9: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-09-25 14:04:21) (reply to #8) James, features is not a support tool. Please raise your issue in appropriate forums or mailinglists. #10: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-09-25 14:07:54) Feature is implemented. Plugin Finder Service is online for 11.2 but needs improvements and should get integrated into software portal to make manual database maintenance needless. #11: Roman Bysh (romanator) (2009-09-26 16:21:41) Can the plugin finder service include an image and name of the missing plugins?  -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475