Re: GSOC idea - NPAPI plugin?



В Сбт, 22/03/2008 в 21:01 -0400, Jacob D'Agostino пишет:
> One of the largest complaints that I see about evince is that, unlike 
> the closed-source Adobe document reader, evince does not integrate as a 
> plugin directly into the user's web browser. Yes, there are hacks like 
> mozplugger that can (for instance) force an evince window into a Firefox 
> tab, but using mozplugger isn't always effective: it (in my experience) 
> tends to be a buggy mess, and on the occasions when it does work, the 
> user needs to wait for the entire document to finish downloading; there 
> are two menu bars in the user's browser (one for the browser and one for 
> evince), etc.
> 
> A native NPAPI plugin could be the solution to these problems. It would 
> be (relatively) browser-independent, supporting any browser that accepts 
> Netscape-standard plugins, and could use evince's rendering code and 
> frontend settings (toolbar, etc) while acting as an actual plugin and 
> not an application forced into a window. This seems like a reasonable 
> plan for a Summer of Code project: it's not so huge that it can't get 
> finished, but not so trivial that a more experienced member here could 
> do it in a weekend. Does this seem like a good idea to anyone else here, 
> or am I barking up the wrong tree?
> 
> --Jacob D'Agostino

Thanks for your proposal Jacob. 

I actually don't think we need a plugin, I don't see any advantages in
embedding one window into another one. Also it will complicate
application logic. That's why the bug 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168933

is resolved as WONTFIX.

I think you need another idea.

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