Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com) [LWN.net]

Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com)

Posted Feb 16, 2007 20:30 UTC (Fri) by marduk (subscriber, #3831)
In reply to: Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com) by odie
Parent article: Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com)

Yes, and even so, couldn't they just pick one GUI toolkit and publish Flash statically linked to it? Isn't that what they already do for Acrobat Reader?

There was an article earlier on how they were taking time trying to decide between audio standards (est, arts, oss, alsa, etc.). My understanding is that the big 2 DE's are both using Gstreamer.. why not write to Gstreamer? Seems like other commercial distributers are doing that and I don't see many complaints from them.

I think this is more of a case of poor management and very little to do with technology.

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Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com)

Posted Feb 16, 2007 22:26 UTC (Fri) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link]

Yes, and even so, couldn't they just pick one GUI toolkit and publish Flash statically linked to it?

I can't speak to Adobe's practices, but from what I heard in the past one of the lead business requirements for the Flash player (on its primary platforms) in the Macromedia days was that the download size be kept as small as possible. Linking in one toolkit or the other would, I imagine, not be conducive to meeting that requirement.

Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com)

Posted Feb 17, 2007 5:48 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Kicking the dead horse here: An open source flash player would be already installed, making it a 0k download.