svn commit: r51357 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 1 10:07:35 UTC 2018
Author: eadler
Date: Mon Jan 1 10:07:34 2018
New Revision: 51357
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51357
Log:
handbook: remove instructions for NPAPI plugins
- Neither Firefox nor Chrome support NPAPI plugins anymore and as such
the instructions to install them are not applicable.
- Tell users of opera to install the plugin directly rather than
redirect to Firefox's instructions. I have not validated that this
still works. Google shows mixed information for Opera's NPAPI support.
- While here remove an extraneous word 'new'
PR: 220399
Reported by: Randy Westlund <rwestlun at gmail.com>
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml Mon Jan 1 09:37:16 2018 (r51356)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml Mon Jan 1 10:07:34 2018 (r51357)
@@ -170,114 +170,6 @@
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/firefox</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="moz-java-plugin">
- <title>Firefox and &java; Plugin</title>
-
- <para>The installation of
- <application>Firefox</application> does not include &java;
- support. However, <package>java/icedtea-web</package>
- provides a free software web browser plugin for running Java
- applets. It can be installed as a package by running:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install icedtea-web</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Alternatively, to compile from the Ports Collection:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/java/icedtea-web</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Keep the default configuration options when compiling the
- port.</para>
-
- <para>Once installed, start <application>Firefox</application>,
- enter <literal>about:plugins</literal> in the location bar and
- press <keycap>Enter</keycap>. A page listing the installed
- plugins will be displayed. The
- <application>&java;</application> plugin should be
- listed.</para>
-
- <para>If the browser is unable to find the plugin, each user
- will have to run the following command and relaunch the
- browser:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>ln -s /usr/local/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so \
- $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/</userinput></screen>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="moz-flash-plugin">
-
- <title>Firefox and &adobe; &flash; Plugin</title>
-
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Flash</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <para>A native &adobe; &flash; plugin is not available for &os;.
- However, a software wrapper for running the &linux; version
- of the plugin is available. This wrapper also provides
- support for other browser plugins such as &realplayer;.</para>
-
- <para>To install and enable this plugin, perform these
- steps:</para>
-
- <procedure>
- <step>
- <para>Install <package
- role="port">www/nspluginwrapper</package> from the port.
- Due to licensing restrictions, a package is not available.
- This port requires
- <package>emulators/linux_base-c6</package>.</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>Install <package
- role="port">www/linux-flashplayer</package> from
- the port. Due to licensing restrictions, a package is not
- available.</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>Before the plugin is first used, each user must
- run:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nspluginwrapper -v -a -i</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>When the plugin port has been updated and reinstalled,
- each user must run:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nspluginwrapper -v -a -u</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Start the browser, enter
- <literal>about:plugins</literal> in the location bar and
- press <keycap>Enter</keycap>. A list of all the currently
- available plugins will be shown.</para>
- </step>
-
- </procedure>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="moz-swfdec-flash-plugin">
- <title>Firefox and Swfdec &flash; Plugin</title>
-
- <para><application>Swfdec</application> is a decoder and
- renderer for &flash; animations.
- <application>Swfdec-Mozilla</application> is a plugin for
- <application>Firefox</application> browsers that uses the
- Swfdec library for playing SWF files.</para>
-
- <para>To install the package:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install swfdec-plugin</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>If the package is not available, compile and install it
- from the Ports Collection:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/swfdec-plugin</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Restart the browser to activate this plugin.</para>
- </sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
@@ -312,13 +204,13 @@
<literal>opera</literal>.</para>
<para>To install &adobe; &flash; plugin support, first compile
- the <package role="port">www/linux-c6-flashplugin11</package>
+ the <package role="port">www/linux-flashplayer</package>
port. Licensing restrictions prevent making a package
available. Then install <package
role="port">www/opera-linuxplugins</package>. This example
compiles both applications from ports:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/linux-c6-flashplugin11</userinput>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/opera-linuxplugins</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
@@ -330,8 +222,8 @@
all the currently available plugins.</para>
<para>To add the <application>&java;</application> plugin,
- follow the instructions in <xref
- linkend="moz-java-plugin"/>.</para>
+ follow install
+ <package role="port">java/icedtea-web</package>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
@@ -406,47 +298,13 @@
is <filename>/usr/local/bin/chrome</filename>, not
<filename>/usr/local/bin/chromium</filename>.</para>
</note>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="chromium-java-plugin">
- <title>Chromium and &java; Plugin</title>
-
- <para>The installation of
- <application>Chromium</application> does not include &java;
- support. To install &java; plugin support, follow the
- instructions in <xref linkend="moz-java-plugin"/>.</para>
-
- <para>Once &java; support is installed, start
- <application>Chromium</application> and enter
- <literal>about:plugins</literal> in the address bar.
- IcedTea-Web should be listed as one of the installed
- plugins.</para>
-
- <para>If <application>Chromium</application> does not display
- the IcedTea-Web plugin, run the following commands and
- restart the web browser:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mkdir -p /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins
-&prompt.root; ln -s /usr/local/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so \
- /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins/</userinput></screen>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 xml:id="chromium-flash-plugin">
- <title>Chromium and &adobe; &flash; Plugin</title>
-
- <para>Configuring <application>Chromium</application> and
- &adobe; &flash; is similar to the instructions in
- <xref linkend="moz-flash-plugin"/>. No additional
- configuration should be necessary, since
- <application>Chromium</application> is able to use some
- plugins from other browsers.</para>
- </sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="desktop-productivity">
<title>Productivity</title>
- <para>When it comes to productivity, new users often look for an
+ <para>When it comes to productivity, users often look for an
office suite or an easy-to-use word processor. While some
<link linkend="x11-wm">desktop environments</link> like
<application>KDE</application> provide an office suite, there
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