Danek Duvall wrote:
> In addition to xscreensaver hacks, there are undoubtedly other plugin and
> extension frameworks that could benefit from greater integration. Ones
> that come to mind are firefox and the other mozilla-based apps, compiz, the
> panel, administrative panels (visual panels, or whatever GNOME has),
> multimedia players.
Certainly with the restriction of the flash plugin to the extras repo, if
firefox could redirect the "missing plugin" page to one that explained it
and offered the links to get your certificate & then install it, it would
be helpful.
> If you boot up with new hardware, something could pop up and offer to
> install the driver for it (if it's not already installed, but could be).
The Device Detection Utility might be able to do this as well. I wonder
what we could do in Xorg, since we have no direct GUI interface, but I
suppose we could have a simple zenity script pop-up on login to GNOME
that says "I see you're using VESA, would you like to check for a better
driver for your hardware in the repo?", but since we bundle all current
Xorg drivers on the LiveCD (except VirtualBox), that wouldn't be very
useful at this point. (And for the VirtualBox case, we'd want it to
suggest the VirtualBox Guest Additions instead of an IPS install anyway.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
