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#21 2016-10-26 03:41:37
- johnraff
- nullglob
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Re: [DONE] Flash in bl-welcome
I think for the short term, there's no need to make this anymore complicated (for J.Raff ...) than it has to be.
...sigh... How I agree with that!
Tell them Chromium will be set as the default browser for flash.
There's no such setting unfortunately. It's just down to how people choose to use their software. We can tell them that flash will be usable on Chromium though.
Ask them if they prefer a different browser...if they choose yes, then download the Adobe-Labs NPAPI updated + security package.
I think it's too early to start offering the Adobe beta NPAPI plugin. At this point I'd prefer to stay with PPAPI for both Chromium (directly) and Firefox (via the freshplayer wrapper), for bl-welcome that is. (Of course there's no reason someone couldn't write a how-to for using the new NPAPI plugin.)
Can we all live with that, at least for the time being?
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#22 2016-10-26 09:53:08
- Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: [DONE] Flash in bl-welcome
^ Yes, I would agree with that proposal.
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#23 2016-10-26 15:10:29
- Horizon_Brave
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Re: [DONE] Flash in bl-welcome
^^ +2 to that. Yea that is a very good point in that it's still a Beta version..and mixing it into a Stable debian (especially something volatile like flash) would probably make for a bad cocktail.
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#24 2016-10-26 16:30:45
- dolly
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Re: [DONE] Flash in bl-welcome
^^^Yes.
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#25 2016-10-27 01:46:58
- johnraff
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Re: [DONE] Flash in bl-welcome
@all thanks!
With any luck I'll have the bl-welcome flash page written today or tomorrow, and finally be able to think about something else. 
The task itself is pretty simple - what complicates it is trying to output sensible-sounding messages for all the corner-cases when people have this or that package installed already. Like, people who've tried to set flash up themselves and come back to bl-welcome hoping to sort it out, or people who installed BL some time ago and have just upgraded to the new bl-welcome...
Still, can't complain: I was forced to learn a bit about systemd services (thanks to Head_on_a_Stick) and finally start dabbling with Python (thanks to nobody) so it wasn't time wasted at all.
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#26 2016-11-11 04:15:39
- johnraff
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- From: Nagoya, Japan
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Re: [DONE] Flash in bl-welcome
New flash page now pushed to bl-welcome/deuterium.
I think it's OK.
Will arrive on the repos when all the deuterium branches are merged.
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