On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 19:28 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
On 01/27/2016 06:26 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 09:11 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote:
> > Will exist a browser which can run this plugin? Firefox is going
> > to
> > remove NPAPI plugin support (it's disabled by default now),
> > Chrome
> > already did so. Does Web (Epiphany) run NPAPI?
>
> Yes, we intend to continue supporting NPAPI plugins. However, NPAPI
> plugins are not currently supported under Wayland. We intend to add
> support for windowless plugins, such as the GNOME Shell browser
> plugin;
> the support is already written (it's awaiting code review), so it
> should be ready prior to F24.
>
> Windowed plugins (Flash, Java, etc.) will not be supported under
> Wayland. We will continue to support them under X11 indefinitely.
As for building NPAPI plugins, there's a separate project that only
ships the required headers. I've forgotten what it's called, but
Debian
uses it to build their NPAPI plugins and it probably needs just
packaging up if the plan is to drop xulrunner. The pkgconfig file
name
is different from xulrunner's, but since Debian already uses it I
expect
most project are already checking both pkgconfig names.
npapi-sdk
A patch for PackageKit was submitted upstream years ago by openSUSE:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40026