Plasma Browser Integration is in kdereview
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Thu Jun 8 21:54:38 BST 2017
El dilluns, 5 de juny de 2017, a les 15:42:34 CEST, David Edmundson va
escriure:
> Hey all,
>
> We'd like to add project plasma-browser-integration into KDE[0].
I'm not happy how the json is filed only on release time, can you not uses the
StaticMessages.sh approach that kdeconnect-android uses to fill them back on
scripty-time?
Cheers,
Albert
>
> The goal is to make chrome and firefox integrate better into a Plasma
> desktop environment through browser extensions.
>
> How?:
> Firefox and chrome (and potentially others) allow plugins to talk to a
> native binary host [1]. This binary host is launched by the the browser and
> has a socket to a conventional browser extension. This project consists of
> both parts allowing a chrome extension to make normal DBus calls to
> services just like other apps.
>
> Integrating what?:
> This gives us the following features:
> - Finding open tabs via krunner
> - Download progress in the task bar
> - Showing now playing information with shortcuts (if the website supports
> it)
> - "Send to KDE Connect" context menu on links
> - Loading windows on the correct activity (WIP)
> - An SNI if incognito windows are open with action to close them.
>
> And potentially more in the future. There is a config to enable/disable
> parts as appropriate.
>
> Deployment:
> This repo consists of two parts. The binary host which should be
> distributed by normal distro means, and the browser extension which is
> going to be different.
>
> The browser extension can be deployed in one of 3 ways.
> - manually by the user from the code (useful for devs)
>
> - through the webstore [2][3]
> - chrome also has a feature where we can ship a text file on the distro
> side that will make the browser automatically fetch an extension from their
> store.
>
> Ideally we want the extension available on the store from an official KDE
> channel.
>
> - potentially it could also be done by the distro, but it seems like FF
> might be removing that possibility and the digital signing is an issue.
>
> [0] https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-browser-integration.git/
> [1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging
> [2]
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration/cimiefiiaegbelh
> efglklhhakcgmhkai [3]
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/plasma-integration/?src=cb-dl
> -updated
>
> Regards
>
> David and Kai
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