Public bug reported:
Hello! This is about latest Gutsy. Consider it a feature-request rather
than a bug.
On Mac OS X, the Flash player has a very nice feature: when pressing the
full-screen button, the Flash window fills up the screen completely.
This mode can be exited by simply pressing the Esc button, and a message
saying this is automatically overlayed on the screen each time, so the
user is well aware what they're looking at and how to quit it.
On Ubuntu (and, I think, pretty much everywhere else), the behavior of
the full-screen button is very different: a new browser window (or tab)
is opened, with the address set to a page that is filled with the Flash
player. (Try this on youtube, for example.) This is bad for two reasons:
(1) It interrupts the video play (or whatever the Flash player was
doing), re-starting it from the beginning. Often it also causes re-
loading of the video (the part that was loaded already in the 'small'
player), though this is more of a browser/Flash problem.
(2) The resulting window still has the browser's controls around it,
meaning that the video (or any content) is not truly full-screen. (This
is generally a good idea, for security & usability reasons, but the Mac
OS X behavior is better.)
I haven't picked an affected package, since I'm not sure which is the
best way to fix this. It could be either hacking Flash (hard, since it's
proprietary, but they might be persuaded to add something to the
flashsupport library for this), modifying Firefox (hard, since it's big
and complex), or some hackish wrapper around the plug-in (which seems to
me the likeliest option). It might even be possible to make some kind of
Compiz hack that simply zooms the resulting window on the whole screen
(though this only solves problem (2), and would decrease the quality a
bit).
(BTW, I'm willing to work on this is someone can mentor me through.)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Hello! This is about latest Gutsy. Consider it a feature-request rather
than a bug.
On Mac OS X, the Flash player has a very nice feature: when pressing the
full-screen button, the Flash window fills up the screen completely;
this mode can be exited by simply pressing the Esc button.
On Ubuntu (and, I think, pretty much everywhere else), the behavior of
the full-screen button is very different: a new browser window (or tab)
is opened, with the address set to a page that is filled with the Flash
player. (Try this on youtube, for example.) This is bad for two reasons:
(1) It interrupts the video play (or whatever the Flash player was
doing), re-starting it from the beginning. Often it also causes re-
loading of the video (the part that was loaded already in the 'small'
player), though this is more of a browser/flash problem. (2) The
resulting window still has the browser's controls around it, meaning
that the video (or any content) is not truly full-screen.
I haven't picked an affected package, since I'm not sure which is the
best way to fix this. It could be either hacking Flash (hard, since it's
proprietary, but they might be persuaded to add something to the
flashsupport library for this), modifying Firefox (hard, since it's big
- and complex), or some hackish wrapper around the plugin (which seems to
+ and complex), or some hackish wrapper around the plug-in (which seems to
me the likeliest option). It might even be possible to make some kind of
Compiz hack that simply zooms the resulting window on the whole screen
(though this only solves problem (2), and would decrease the quality a
bit).
+
+ (BTW, I'm willing to work on this is someone can mentor me through.)
** Description changed:
Hello! This is about latest Gutsy. Consider it a feature-request rather
than a bug.
On Mac OS X, the Flash player has a very nice feature: when pressing the
- full-screen button, the Flash window fills up the screen completely;
- this mode can be exited by simply pressing the Esc button.
+ full-screen button, the Flash window fills up the screen completely.
+ This mode can be exited by simply pressing the Esc button, and a message
+ saying this is automatically overlayed on the screen each time, so the
+ user is well aware what they're looking at and how to quit it.
On Ubuntu (and, I think, pretty much everywhere else), the behavior of
the full-screen button is very different: a new browser window (or tab)
is opened, with the address set to a page that is filled with the Flash
player. (Try this on youtube, for example.) This is bad for two reasons:
+
(1) It interrupts the video play (or whatever the Flash player was
doing), re-starting it from the beginning. Often it also causes re-
loading of the video (the part that was loaded already in the 'small'
- player), though this is more of a browser/flash problem. (2) The
- resulting window still has the browser's controls around it, meaning
- that the video (or any content) is not truly full-screen.
+ player), though this is more of a browser/Flash problem.
+
+ (2) The resulting window still has the browser's controls around it,
+ meaning that the video (or any content) is not truly full-screen. (This
+ is generally a good idea, for security & usability reasons, but the Mac
+ OS X behavior is better.)
I haven't picked an affected package, since I'm not sure which is the
best way to fix this. It could be either hacking Flash (hard, since it's
proprietary, but they might be persuaded to add something to the
flashsupport library for this), modifying Firefox (hard, since it's big
and complex), or some hackish wrapper around the plug-in (which seems to
me the likeliest option). It might even be possible to make some kind of
Compiz hack that simply zooms the resulting window on the whole screen
(though this only solves problem (2), and would decrease the quality a
bit).
(BTW, I'm willing to work on this is someone can mentor me through.)
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Flash video doesn't have true a full-screen mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164897
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