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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
plasmoids in firefox
George Goldberg appeared yesterday with a Netscape plugin for Plasma, allowing us to run Plasma applets in browsers that use Netscape plugins, such as Firefox (though certainly not limited to Firefox; many browsers support Netscape plugins).
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And what exactly is the point of this?
And what happens if I use a plasmoid with firefox embedded which load the plasmoid itself?
@marcel: in part because we can (the "cool hack" principle) and in part because it provides another practical means to deploy plasma widgets which in turn gives a greater incentive to create them.
@finex: what happens if you load a flash plugin that loads a flash plugin that loads the first flash plugin? same general issue, i'd imagine.
FWIW: Opera 9.51 loads this, and the example page works...for some definition of works :)
and what about binary plasmoids? How will they work? The user needs to be using linux and having plasma libraries to this work?
@Paulo Cesar: "and what about binary plasmoids?"
this is more targeted towards non-binary plasmoids. just one more reason why non-compiled languages are so much better suited for this kind of thing.
"How will they work?"
they work now, but yes, the user needs them locally installed. scripted plasmoids would have no such limitations.
"The user needs to be using linux and having plasma libraries to this work?"
plasma has no dependencies on Linux, but libplasma does need to be present. should this plugin actually end up getting packaged, one can only assume it would come with libplasma as well.
So non-binary plasmoids will just work?
This is indeed very nice technology, one more motivation for me start programming with it :)
@marcel: Imagine going to KDE-Look.org, and being able to actually see the plasmoid in action and try it before downloading. That would be cool.
I'm just tickled that Firefox is finally going to integrate with Qt. It's got a native Windows look, and a native Gnome/GTK look... I can't wait till it has a native KDE look, and integrates with kuiserver, and maybe some other KDE things like Nepomuk (for places/history). I am curious to see what affect this has on Webkit though. Maybe webkit will remain a more local rendering engine (for SVG and stuff) and Mozilla gets stuck with rendering the quirky code on the Internet. Or vice versa! Who knows?
and, these 'non-binary plasmoids' will work on kde3 with this plugin?
@drunkenbullfrog: "these 'non-binary plasmoids' will work on kde3 with this plugin?"
sure ..
I know this post is too old, but check this out
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Konqueror+plasma+integration?content=90368
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