Hi, I'd like to propose swfdec-gnome for inclusion into the GNOME 2.22 desktop. Swfdec-gnome is a recent addition to the Swfdec project [1]. Its purpose is integration of Flash files into the Gnome desktop. It currently provides a thumbnailer and a playback application for local files similar to the stand-alone application Adobe ships on Windows. It is supposed to replace the support that is currently provided via the Swfdec 0.3 GStreamer plugin/Totem.
This would of course add an external dependency on the Swfdec library. The Swfdec library itself does not depend on anything that is not already part of Gnome. In fact, it uses Glib, Cairo, Pango and Gtk plus optional dependencies on GStreamer/FFmpeg/Mad for video/audio decoding and ALSA/OSS for audio playback. Currently swfdec-gnome is hosted in our git repo on Freedesktop and uses its bugtracker, but I would prefer moving it to Gnome SVN and using its bugtracker for ease of integration with the Gnome project. This should also not be a problem because almost all developers of Swfdec are already Gnome developers. On to some Q/A for questions I imagine you people asking: Do you really think Swfdec is mature enough to be used as an Adobe Flash substitute? I would be very (some say overly) careful about making that statement. However, this proposal is not about a substitute for the Flash player in your browser. It is about better support for the Flash files on your desktop. Currently there is almost no integration for these. They are played back and thumbnailed with an older version of Swfdec through Totem and this solution is definitely far superior than that. Isn't swfdec-gnome a bit young? Its git log looks like it's only a week old? In fact, all these applications already existed as part of the Swfdec source tree for over a year, they just weren't installed. We only recently took the work to split them off to be able to make them really GNOMEy without having loads of GNOME dependencies in the core library. Cheers, Benjamin [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
