TL;DR: plugins path in Opera set up by default for new user accounts soon


Currently if you want to use plugins in Opera, you need to enable plugin
path (/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins) manually, because this path (which isn't
probably universal across big distributions) is not enabled in Opera by
default.

I've committed a change to skel that adds this path, so from the next
version of Sabayon *for newly created user accounts only, because it uses
skel* plugins should work out of the box.

(By the way, almost all HTML5 YouTube videos work without any plugin. Good
job Opera and YouTubers!)

For those who don't like it, it's easy to disable (Opera → Settings →
Preferences → Advanced tab → Config → Plug-in Options button; or
opera:plugins).
You can also disable plugins selectively.
I believe it's what most people want, however.

The change will take effect a bit before next version of Sabayon appears,
maybe earlier. Unless it would have been reverted if a reason arises…

-- somewhat technical part, eg. "Why?", feel free to skip --

I've added the new required path and two other that are set up by Opera on
my
system by default.
That is because I wanted to keep upstream's default that
/usr/lib/opera/plugins is listed first (otherwise it wouldn't be first).

/usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64 on amd64 Sabayon systems, so it has to
work
there too.

Regards


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