As the subject line says, I’ve recompiled Pidgin (hopefully with SSL support for MSN) and am currently compiling Gnash.
Why are you compiling Gnash? It’s in the repos!
True, it’s in the repos, but this is the example where having x86 users building a PowerPC distribution is really dumb. On x86, it’s a great idea to use OpenGL as the rendering engine for Gnash. The official graphics card drivers allow hardware acceleration. On PowerPC, it’s a bad idea - there are no official graphics card drivers for PPC, so you don’t get direct rendering; which makes OpenGL programs run very slowly.
Gnash supports the Cairo backend (experimentally), and this should run quickly enough for our purposes.
Why not use swfdec? That supports Youtube videos!
All the really good stuff from Youtube is also available on Google Video, and you can download and play stuff from Google Video without even having any Flash support. Also, you can use the Video Downloader extension (not included) for Firefox to download the actual video data from Youtube as a .flv, and then play it in Mplayer (not included).
If you really want swfdec, you can install it exactly the same way that you always did on PPC. Gnash seems to have better compatibility with various Flash movies.
Where can I download Copland Community Preview?
Hold on, not yet… but it will be available soon. I’ll probably release it as a torrent + a Yousendit.com service (you e-mail a particular address, it will be sent to you that night on www.yousendit.com).
How long until Gnash finishes compiling?
It just has! Brilliant!
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I got the chance to play with Windows Vista today at Dick Smith’s. It was on a laptop, and the Aero interface was enabled. Honestly, it’s not a patch on Beryl. Having windows fade in and move toward the viewer a smidgin looks quite smooth, but there certainly wasn’t a WOW factor about it. Speed-wise, Vista seemed to be okay… but it took longer to display the recycle bin window than Ubuntu+Beryl does to display the trash.
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