Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:58:21 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Rob <europa100@comcast.net> Subject: Re: flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer & fontconfig Message-ID: <200512191858.21724.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051219184130.3da9117b.europa100@comcast.net> References: <20051219035752.GA27224@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> <200512191712.23720.akbeech@gmail.com> <20051219184130.3da9117b.europa100@comcast.net>
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On Monday 19 December 2005 18:41, Rob wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900 > > Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: > > > > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: > > > > > > Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > > > > > The port is not broken cvsup your tree > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the > > > > > > proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path > > > > > > for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will > > > > > > correct. > > > > > > > > > > The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not > > > > > mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your > > > > > browser_plugins dir? > > > > > > > > That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the > > > > first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does > > > > break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come > > > > from. Users should not have to move things that were installed in the > > > > wrong place. That's the job of the port. > > > > > > You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some > > > of us read their mails ;-) > > > Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is "broken" > > > You have too much to manually correct. > > > At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time > > > finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. > > > > Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've > > tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage > > to get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken > > since the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many > > hours to find all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me > > with that issue). If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a > > script which will do it automatically. I would think this would be a > > priority if FreeBSD is going to be a viable desktop alternative. It's > > exactly this kind of situation that causes new users to give up and go > > with the penguin, or worse go back to micro$oft. I can't even tell > > someone to read the documentation, because there isn't any. These fixes > > were scattered throughout many email threads that span many months. > > > > If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at: > > > > http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_to.txt > > > > Just my .02 > > > > Beech > > I can sympathize about these linux program problems. I want to be > able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to boot > into Windows to do it. > > The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts and > it tells me to fix fontconfig. I never had problems with fonts before > fontconfig came into being. I really have no idea why it exists. > > Moreover, I have no interest in learning XML, then cutting and pasting > various config files together out of what little documentation exists > for fontconfig. The documentation is so poor that I have no idea what > I am doing anyway. Searches on Google and the mailing lists were no > help either. > > It is very frustrating. I concur that some of these programs are just > not desktop ready. At this rate I am never going to be able to get rid > of XP on my laptop. > > Rob. If desktop users only donated a quarter of what they pay for XP to open source projects I'm sure priorities would change drastically. As it is we get way more than we pay for. -Mike
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