Public bug reported: When I go here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zeitgeist-plugin/cckhkmhbknngejnoepfopckjlbnpookg
to install the Chromium plugin for Zeitgeist, after confirming the installation/permissions, a yellow info bar says "NPAPI plugins are not supported." No history from my Chromium use seems to be logged in the Activity Journal. I use Chromium as my primary web browser -- my version info (major version 39): Chromium: 39.0.2171.65 (Developer Build) Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on LinuxMint 17.1 Revision: b853bfefba0da840f4574eb3b5c7ad6e9b8573b5 OS: Linux Blink: 537.36 (@185325) JavaScript: V8 3.29.88.17 Flash: 16.0.0.235 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/39.0.2171.65 Chrome/39.0.2171.65 Safari/537.36 REASON: See here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation chrome://flags doesn't seem to have the Enable NPAPI flag anymore; the api seems to be not only deprecated but, in recent versions, well and truly gone. SUGGESTED FIX: This is what the Chromium devs suggest for a replacement for communication with native apps: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging Replacing the data-source would probably entail building a browser extension to watch activity, and then building a zeitgeist sub-process of some sort that can communicate over JSON w/ the extension. It will also be necessary to put a file describing how to start the "host" (i.e. native, zeitgeist-side) process in a Chrome/ium subdirectory. Other alternatives (probably not relevant) are described here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation#TOC-Alternatives-to-NPAPI IMPACT: For me, and I think for many users, the vast majority of my computing is on the internet. There are many days when I don't open a single desktop application besides Chromium. While I can still get benefit out of Zeitgeist by using Synapse, it won't be possible/worthwhile to form the habit of accessing the desktop primarily through the Activity Journal or suchlike until Chrome/ium is supported. Also, it feels like a huge hole in Synapse for it to ignore my web usage -- especially when it *doesn't* ignore the few pages I've visited in Firefox. So, for my use case, this bug is moderately severe. I'm willing to do some work in making this happen; I have general programming experience, although I haven't any experience with Chrome Extensions or any of the relevant languages except JS and Python, and I'm not sure I feel confident taking on this whole project by myself because I've never successfully built an app or plugin of any size on my own, and only once in a group. Get in touch and tell me what you need done! Thank you. -- Robbie Eginton ** Affects: zeitgeist-datasources Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Zeitgeist Framework Team, which is subscribed to Zeitgeist Data-Sources. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406636 Title: chrome/ium data-source plugin uses no-longer-supported api (NPAPI) Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources: New Bug description: When I go here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zeitgeist-plugin/cckhkmhbknngejnoepfopckjlbnpookg to install the Chromium plugin for Zeitgeist, after confirming the installation/permissions, a yellow info bar says "NPAPI plugins are not supported." No history from my Chromium use seems to be logged in the Activity Journal. I use Chromium as my primary web browser -- my version info (major version 39): Chromium: 39.0.2171.65 (Developer Build) Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on LinuxMint 17.1 Revision: b853bfefba0da840f4574eb3b5c7ad6e9b8573b5 OS: Linux Blink: 537.36 (@185325) JavaScript: V8 3.29.88.17 Flash: 16.0.0.235 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/39.0.2171.65 Chrome/39.0.2171.65 Safari/537.36 REASON: See here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation chrome://flags doesn't seem to have the Enable NPAPI flag anymore; the api seems to be not only deprecated but, in recent versions, well and truly gone. SUGGESTED FIX: This is what the Chromium devs suggest for a replacement for communication with native apps: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging Replacing the data-source would probably entail building a browser extension to watch activity, and then building a zeitgeist sub-process of some sort that can communicate over JSON w/ the extension. It will also be necessary to put a file describing how to start the "host" (i.e. native, zeitgeist-side) process in a Chrome/ium subdirectory. Other alternatives (probably not relevant) are described here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation#TOC-Alternatives-to-NPAPI IMPACT: For me, and I think for many users, the vast majority of my computing is on the internet. There are many days when I don't open a single desktop application besides Chromium. While I can still get benefit out of Zeitgeist by using Synapse, it won't be possible/worthwhile to form the habit of accessing the desktop primarily through the Activity Journal or suchlike until Chrome/ium is supported. Also, it feels like a huge hole in Synapse for it to ignore my web usage -- especially when it *doesn't* ignore the few pages I've visited in Firefox. So, for my use case, this bug is moderately severe. I'm willing to do some work in making this happen; I have general programming experience, although I haven't any experience with Chrome Extensions or any of the relevant languages except JS and Python, and I'm not sure I feel confident taking on this whole project by myself because I've never successfully built an app or plugin of any size on my own, and only once in a group. Get in touch and tell me what you need done! Thank you. -- Robbie Eginton To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zeitgeist-datasources/+bug/1406636/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist Post to : zeitgeist@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
