[packagekit] A PackageKit browser plugin

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 07:12:17 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 13:33 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Kevin Kofler
> <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>         Colin Walters <walters <at> verbum.org> writes:
>         > Well, keep in mind that this isn't the same target use case
>         as the pk shared
>         > libraries; i.e. nothing except Firefox-derived codebases is
>         going to be
>         > linking in Firefox extensions.
>         
>         
>         Is it an extension or a traditional plugin? Other browsers,
>         such as Konqueror,
>         can also load classic Mozilla plugins (but not Firefox
>         extensions, of course).
> 
> Actually you're right, it is a plugin and not an extension.  However I
> think the generic-interface exception would apply here (i.e. it
> doesn't count as linking).

Sure, then I think it makes perfect sense to include this in the
PackageKit source tree. I think it just needs a --enable-mozilla-plugin
in configure.ac and stick the files in contrib/mozilla-plugin

If we change it to use the dbus interface, then it's not gnome specific
-- and we get the native KDE stuff when the KPackageKit guys implement
the same session interface.

Plus, putting it in tree allows me to keep it compiling even if we
change API/ABI in the future.

Could you prepare a patch, of do you want me to have a go?

Richard.





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