[Lunar-commits] r25516 - moonbase/trunk/zbeta/flash-plugin-beta

Stefan Wold ratler at lunar-linux.org
Thu Aug 23 09:47:42 CEST 2007


> Hey do not make gossip. I only wrote mr. B. G. (who perceives Linux as 
> competition and enemy) would be happy as a possible effect of reading 
> unfortunate (I hope) misunderstanding of Adobe's release notes creator.
> I wrote Adobe is making black PR by placing false statement:
> "Hardware scaling is not available on Linux." which may suggest the hardware 
> scaling is not available on Linux. I filled bug report asking Adobe to change 
> this false statement to something like:
> "Hardware scaling is not available on Flash plugin for Linux." to clearly show 
> the lack of hardware scaling is explicitly due to software design limitation 
> of Flash plugin and not Linux limitation as OS (Linux is able to do hardware 
> scaling using well known X-Video extension). Adobe got bug report when 
> previous beta was released from me where I:
> *gentle asked for fixing this false statement for something more closer to 
> true,
> *described X-Video extension and how its advantages may help Adobe solve high 
> CPU usage during video playback,
> *added links to X-Video related pages, Xv programming docs and examples.
> Now another beta is out and I see this false statement in Fixed part so it 
> will disappear soon.
> 
> I appreciate Adobe involvement in making Flash and Acrobat Reader for Linux.
> Just only would like to see less controversial release notes. 
> 
> I hope this clears this unfortunate svn commit description.
> I suggest EOT.

In my opinion the commit message was great information, keep doing that.
I read all commit messages in contrary to some other people.

/Stefan



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