Gnash in Konqueror

Hi Rob,

Yesterday at FOSDEM we talked about Gnash, and you asked me
to try to hook you 
up to a KDE developer who knows the ins and outs of
embedding stuff in konqi 
and khtml. So here you go, the CC's I send this mail to can
help you. George 
knows a lot about konqi, and Koos managed to get Kmplayer
play pretty much 
all video's embedded in websites anywhere so he has some
experience 

I also added the konqi developer mailinglist. This should
get you and your 
team up-to-speed, getting gnash properly integrated in
konqueror. I'm pretty 
sure these guys can answer all questions you can throw at
them!

Have fun,


Jos Poortvliet

jos poortvliet wrote:

> I also added the konqi developer mailinglist. This
should get you and your 
> team up-to-speed, getting gnash properly integrated in
konqueror. I'm pretty 
> sure these guys can answer all questions you can throw
at them!

   Thank you! Unfortunately, none of the Gnash team are GUI
hackers at 
all. The existing KDE support was donated, I rewrote it, but
it's lagged 
behind the GTK GUI pretty badly due to lack of attention.
Gnash does run 
under Konqueror OK, but the menus aren't up to date with the
rest of 
Gnash, etc... We'd love to see the KDE support in as good
shape as the 
GTK support. Because we use GTK on the OLPC and under GPE
for 
OpenEmbedded, it's been getting the most attention.

   Just to answer the question everyone asks, as of a few
weeks ago 
embedded Flash video works in Gnash, and streaming video is
working in 
CVS. We're tracking down the last of the obscure issues with
the YouTube 
Flash movie player so that should be working very soon now.
Gnash also 
runs on 64 bit systems, so KDE users can now have a Flash
plugin on 
those platforms as well.

	- rob -

hi Rob =)

On February 26, 2007, Rob Savoye wrote:
>    Thank you! Unfortunately, none of the Gnash team are
GUI hackers at
> all. The existing KDE support was donated, I rewrote
it, but it's lagged
> behind the GTK GUI pretty badly due to lack of
attention. Gnash does run
> under Konqueror OK, but the menus aren't up to date
with the rest of
> Gnash, etc... We'd love to see the KDE support in as
good shape as the
> GTK support. Because we use GTK on the OLPC and under
GPE for
> OpenEmbedded, it's been getting the most attention.

could you provide some pointers to documentation, etc that
one could start 
with covering what GUI bits are needed to implemented? e.g.
you mention menus 
that need to be updated; is there any docu on where to find
the current state 
of what should be in the menus? general dev documentation
for gnash would 
also be good ...

i see a reference to libghanshui on this page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/gnash.html#tour


and this isn't overly detailed:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/
doxygen/classgnash_1_1Gui.html

it would be nice to have a bit more information.. any
pointers?

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Hi,

2007/2/26, Rob Savoye <robwelcomehome.org>:
>    Thank you! Unfortunately, none of the Gnash team are
GUI hackers at
> all. The existing KDE support was donated, I rewrote
it, but it's lagged
> behind the GTK GUI pretty badly due to lack of
attention. Gnash does run
> under Konqueror OK, but the menus aren't up to date
with the rest of
> Gnash, etc... We'd love to see the KDE support in as
good shape as the
> GTK support. Because we use GTK on the OLPC and under
GPE for
> OpenEmbedded, it's been getting the most attention.

The last time I checked, the kpart plugin was using klash
for embedding and
IMHO it could very well embed gnash as does the ns plugin.
If the ns plugin still uses embedding, then we only need a
common protocol
like dbus or stdout/stdin for communication (like suggested
earlier).
That will save you from maintaining a separate version.
Debian for instance already has gnash in its repository, so
a kde
plugin can be a simple kpart embedding gnash.

Koos

>    Just to answer the question everyone asks, as of a
few weeks ago
> embedded Flash video works in Gnash, and streaming
video is working in
> CVS. We're tracking down the last of the obscure issues
with the YouTube
> Flash movie player so that should be working very soon
now. Gnash also
> runs on 64 bit systems, so KDE users can now have a
Flash plugin on
> those platforms as well.
>
>         - rob -
>