[Soc-coordination] GSOC project proposal: Package-aware Plugin Finder Service for Iceweasel

[Obey Arthur Liu]

Hi Mike,

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:

> Mentor: Mike Hommey
> Summary: Allow Iceweasel to find plugins through the packaging system
> Required skills:
>    - Javascript
>    - C/C++
> Description:
>    When going to a web page embedding an object of an unsupported mime
>    type, Iceweasel displays a wizard that uses a remote server to query
>    what plugins can be used depending on OS, architecture and mime
>    type. This project aims at adding one data source to the equation,
>    using data from the packaging system.
>    If time permits, the system could be extended to other types of
>    addons.
>

 I really like this project. <bikeshedding>I would like it even more if this
could be abstracted and made usable to other software having similar
problems in Debian. Something with gnome-codec-install, or missing latex
packages detection :)
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