[Sugar-devel] Flash on Browse Activity - Ubuntu

[Gustavo Duarte]

Hi Sebastian,

I understand your point regarding run Flash on XOs, but in my case, I want
run Flash content on standard PCs, with Sugar in Ubuntu 14.04.

If mostly Browser  are supporting Flash, like Firefox, Chrome and Epiphany,
why Browse Activity, not ?

Browse is based on Webkit (Chrome and Safari also) and Webkit support
Flash. So my guess is that Browse Activity isn't  detecting the Flash
plugin installed on the system. I don't why, until now, may be a Path
searching problem. I'm trying to debug.

Regards.



On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
wrote:

> Gustavo,
>
> It's been four years already that Adobe dropped support for Linux [1]. Yes
> there are workarounds on "life support". Some distros, even google,
> maintain some kind of solution. Maybe even OLPC can help you. But really, I
> invite you to think this thru.
>
> I have seen many times XO deployers wanting to put a checkmark on "flash
> support" and they often do it. In practice, have you tried Flash on an XO?
> It's practically worthless. So you need to decide if you want to provide
> the best user experience or rather put a checkmark on "flash support".
>
> If you have specific contents you own you *could *try to sugarize your
> swf with a wrapper that somebody made. I've seen this work, but if I were
> you I think efforts rewriting in an open format are better spent [because
> they can be reused].
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://www.tuxgarage.com/2012/02/adobe-drops-support-of-flash-for.html
>
> On 01/03/16 09:06, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mmmm .... on Linux Firefox, Chrome and Epiphany has support for flash, i
> tested and working well.
>
> And Ubuntu, has a package flashplugin-installer.
>
> I guess, Browse activity, isn't detecting this plugin.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
>
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