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Plasma hotness -vs- GNU's flash project?
by Borker on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @07:16

As plasma seems to be becoming this great rich media vehicle, would it be possible / desirable to make it the front end to something like GNU's flash clone? With SVG, animation effects engine as well as the scriptability of plasma it seems like they would be a somewhat natural pairing...

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Re: Plasma hotness -vs- GNU's flash project?
by Jakob Petsovits on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @09:36

Well, Flash is only really used in web pages. Plasma is a desktop technology. So unless browsers support Plasma applets (and it's not even natively portable to OS X or Windows because it's based on X11), chances are not too good for Plasma to replace Flash.

On the other hand, chances are very good for Plasma to attract a shitload of desktop and web developers that create all sorts of useful and spiffy mini viewers and helpers which go far beyond what was achieved with SuperKaramba in KDE 3.

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Re: Plasma hotness -vs- GNU's flash project?
by Sutoka on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @10:39

"(and it's not even natively portable to OS X or Windows because it's based on X11)"

The Plasma application itself isn't portable to non-X11 platforms, but isn't libplasma (or whatever its called, the lib that amarok is looking at using) still portable to any platform Qt runs on, since its mostly just built on top of QGraphicsView?

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Re: Plasma hotness -vs- GNU's flash project?
by Borker on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @12:20

I wasn't really thinking of replacing but implementing. Apps like amarok are embedding plasma into them, i can just imagine a lot of opportunities to take advantage of the existing realm of flash apps that could be embedded into apps (web browsers, standalone flash game players etc) as well as onto the desktop in a nice natively supported code base.

A neat toy for example would be a flash game player with a library similar to what some of the xmame frontends provide.

Anyways, just an idea I thought I'd bring up for a bit of discussion

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