Bug#467324: include gnash in desktop?
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.71
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I'd like to propose gnash browser plugins being added to the desktop task.
A significant amount of websites nowadays use flash; significant enough
that most of our first-time users are troubled with the difficulty of finding
and installing a "suitable" flash plugin (which is often not that suitable,
given that it is propietary and buggy).
I use gnash regularly (in combination with adblock) and I think it's reasonably
mature nowadays. At least, it works for the most common flash sites, like
youtube.
CCing gnash maintainers as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 terminal-based package manager
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-2 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.71 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
diff -ur tasksel-2.73/tasks/desktop tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/desktop
--- tasksel-2.73/tasks/desktop 2008-02-14 12:28:57.000000000 +0100
+++ tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/desktop 2008-02-24 18:04:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
# firefox (ne iceweasel) is the most popular web browser at the moment,
# although both gnome and kde offer their own too
iceweasel
+# support flash in mozilla/xulrunner browsers
+ mozilla-plugin-gnash
# hardware detection
discover1
xresprobe
diff -ur tasksel-2.73/tasks/kde-desktop tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/kde-desktop
--- tasksel-2.73/tasks/kde-desktop 2008-02-08 13:09:02.000000000 +0100
+++ tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/kde-desktop 2008-02-24 18:04:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
Packages: task-fields
Packages-list:
kde
+# support flash in konqueror
+ konqueror-plugin-gnash
openoffice.org-kde
# enable debian menus
menu-xdg
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