Package: tasksel Version: 2.71 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I'd like to propose gnash browser plugins being added to the desktop task.
A significant amount of websites nowadays use flash; significant enough that most of our first-time users are troubled with the difficulty of finding and installing a "suitable" flash plugin (which is often not that suitable, given that it is propietary and buggy). I use gnash regularly (in combination with adblock) and I think it's reasonably mature nowadays. At least, it works for the most common flash sites, like youtube. CCing gnash maintainers as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 terminal-based package manager ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-2 Using libc functions for internati ii tasksel-data 2.71 Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded
diff -ur tasksel-2.73/tasks/desktop tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/desktop --- tasksel-2.73/tasks/desktop 2008-02-14 12:28:57.000000000 +0100 +++ tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/desktop 2008-02-24 18:04:34.000000000 +0100 @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ # firefox (ne iceweasel) is the most popular web browser at the moment, # although both gnome and kde offer their own too iceweasel +# support flash in mozilla/xulrunner browsers + mozilla-plugin-gnash # hardware detection discover1 xresprobe diff -ur tasksel-2.73/tasks/kde-desktop tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/kde-desktop --- tasksel-2.73/tasks/kde-desktop 2008-02-08 13:09:02.000000000 +0100 +++ tasksel-2.73.gnash/tasks/kde-desktop 2008-02-24 18:04:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Packages: task-fields Packages-list: kde +# support flash in konqueror + konqueror-plugin-gnash openoffice.org-kde # enable debian menus menu-xdg
