[OSM-talk] Potlatch and Gnash (was: JOSM will move to Java6)

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

I have disabled adobe flash, and done some testing with gnash for the past
days.
it turns out the potlach is usable. there are some issues that I have
reported here, more to test.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS/PotlatchGnash

Today, I tested in on my fresh rails import http://xhema.flossk.org:3000/
and it runs perfectly when no data is in there.
so it seems to be an issue of the amount of data that causes the mouse to
lag.
this can surly be optimized.

mike

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> >> And use the gnash runtime.
> > I think it is a good idea to generate gnash-compatible Flash apps, for
> > example to support whatever embedded system/ smartphone with
> > a powerful OS.
>
> Agreed.  I use gnash on all my machines nowadays, and while I can't say
> that it works for everything, it does work well enough that even my wife
> didn't ask me to (re)install Adobe's version.
> Note that there are also non-embeeded systems and non-smartphones on
> which Adobe's Flash is not available (non-x86 systems running
> GNU/Linux, like PowerPC macs, some netbooks and nettops, ...)
>
> The rumor said that when gnash-0.8.4 came out (or was it 0.8.6?),
> someone had Potlatch working with it.  But I never managed to make
> it work.  Currently, when I click the "edit" tab, Potlatch comes ou with
> some icons at the bottom, a "pen cursor" thingy, and the middle of
> screen gives me a macosx-style hourclock saying "Please wait - loading
> presets" and the hourclock keeps spinning eternally.
>
> > Gnash seems not to be very active, but it is quite feature-complete.
>
> I'm pretty sure that Potlatch can be made to work on Gnash, if only the
> Gnash and Potlatch people got together and took it as an important goal.
> As it stands, Potlatch developpers do not seem very motivated and prefer
> to tie their hands a bit tighter with more proprietary technology, sadly.
>
>
>        Stefan
>
>
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