As time goes I spent quite time making the nsplugin work on 3.4 release. My fix was not optimal enough and it caused various regressions (like launching libreoffice everytime you launched browser and so on). In the end we managed to sort this out around 3.5beta2, it was a great shot, it worked perfectly with firefox-3.6 and we were happy.
But now with 3.5.4 it is building the plugin and it fail to register itself in the firefox-10 itself again. And with 3.6 release the plugin even fails to show up in the list of extensions in firefox.
As I never did working plugin for firefox I have no damn idea what is wrong in there. Same applies for the the rest of the developers whom don’t even care much about that extension. So if you are one of those who really like the idea of embedding your documents within browser and you understand (or at least want to work on) the plugins please poke me, or send me some patches right away. As of now you can grab even 3.5 code to hack on because the extension does not work anywhere.
Otherwise I will just drop the useflag from 3.6 on.
I gave up with the plugin already in OpenOffice, specially as plugins seems so much gnome dependnecy and works not that well when you made browser to be built with qt-toolbox.
Noadays it quite simple to get the browser to launch a application when the browser downloads a specific mime type, so thise plugins are quite useless, the only reason I have adobe reader plugin installed, it’s some stupid website checks for the plugin before serving you the PDF, but it’s okular which opens and not adobe reader, as okular supports asian fonts, which adobe reader don’t do unless you use a version which ain’t supported in Gentoo anymore.
I think you do the right thing and just drop support for the *office nsplugin.
Trizt, just a side note: acroread (in Gentoo) _does_ support asian fonts provided you emerged media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts with relevant (or all) USE flags. It has an extremely bad security record though.
It’s a while ago, as Okular has been around and worked fine, but when I was trying to have Asian fonts with acrobar reader, they didn’t supply any Asian fonts to 9.x for Linux, all they wrote on their homepage was use version 7.
But it’s not a big deal, even use Okular at work nowadays, don’t have to reboot that aful ms-win-box after update of okular as you need if you have updated acrobat reader.
I for one would be happy. Never liked the nsplugin, the concept it offered or the complexity it brought in. By the way, thank you for all the work on LO. It is my primary document creation app.
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yes, don’t waste your time and thanks for the great libreoffice-ebuilds!