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Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux
Linux.com's Bruce Byfield is reporting that Salasaga, the renamed Flame Project, is attempting to fill the functionality gap of Flash creation for Linux in addition to being a cross-platform tool. While it still lacks the spit-shine of more mature apps, it is going a long way to filling yet another hole in Linux software. "Opening Salasaga, you could easily think you are in a slide show program. Individual slides display on the left, and the current slide appears on the bottom right. On the top right is information about the layers on the current side. Menus are logically laid out across the top of the editing window. From the editing menu, you can set the defaults for new projects, including the default display size of finished projects, the preview width, and the default background color. After adjusting these settings, you proceed logically from the right as you develop a project, progressing from Screenshots for importation through Slide and Layer to Export. This progression is so logical that few viewers should have trouble teaching themselves the basics of the software and producing a test project in less than 20 minutes -- and saving it in native .flame format or exporting it to Flash or SVG formats."
On the off-chance someone was going to RTFA, here is the FA, since it doesn't seem to have made it into the story.
The following line probably tells most people what they want to know:
Also missing are features that those familiar with Flash Professional or Adobe Captivate might expect, such as drawing tools, a scripting language, and support for sound and video.
So what does it do? Well, slideshows. Handy, but not hugely exciting.
The link is a lie.
After all if I did, someone would only mark it as native .flame bait
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Here I am in amd64... can I have an integrated flash player that WORKS please? Gnash is utter crap (arg please don't say contribute, I haven't the time to do anything but work and flame on slashdot). I don't want to make a chroot 32 environment / install every 32 bit library in existence...
:P
Does anyone in my situation have a suggestion? I've also tried broken firefox add-ons, including: Magic's Video - Downloader, Media Pirate - The Video Downloader, and Video Download. I can watch about 1/3 of youtube videos. 1/3 don't work at all, and 1/3 only show the first frame. I haven't seen one interactive flash that works. Some flash completely freezes up firefox. Maybe I'd have luck with a different browser
Face it, no OS has much to offer to the inexperienced user. The question is, how much does it take to become an experienced user? Or how much does the OS get in your way if you're inexperienced?
Been doing this for years.
Simple: Treat the distribution as an OS. If it doesn't have a native package for Ubuntu, then as a novice user, assume it doesn't support Ubuntu.
Now, I dare you to find a slicker way to install and maintain programs than Synaptic.
Oh please:
And there's a GUI for that, too, if you need it. I think it prompts you on first boot now.
Except he can -- again, absurdly simple to enable. First time you click on an MP3, you'll get a prompt that'll guide you through installing the necessary packages.
You're not even trying, are you?
Worst case? Tell them to install a 32-bit OS. Not as if they'd be worse off than in Windows.
Again, only a few clicks away. And once they're installed, they'll actually auto-update, and stay updated.
Believe it or not, installing XP on this laptop was worse -- tried downloading the drivers from nvidia.com, and they didn't work. The Toshiba site only had Vista drivers. Had to go to an old Toshiba UK site to find any. On Linux? Damned-near plug'n'play.
And then you go on to list a few apps that you don't like, but which do, indeed, prove that these things exist. Oh, and Maya has a Linux port.
Rails.
Which also can only be used reasonably on a machine with 2 gigs of RAM. May as well use Eclipse.
For business-level, maybe not. Personal-level, there's Gnucash and KMyMoney.
Dell does.
Literally plugged a webcam into a vanilla Kubuntu, had it running in Kopete with no tweaking whatsoever.
And at that point, you descend completely into a pointless rant, that makes me wonder exactly what Linux people you've been hanging out with -- if, indeed, you know anything about Linux at all. You make some good points, but you lose all credibility when you rant about problems that were fixed 2+ years ago, or actually complain about things that Linux does better than Windows.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Salasaga is cool, but I am not totally sure that it fills the Linux community's need for a Flash IDE, though it does do a good job of creating web based interactive learning environments. I do not want to steal the light, but I want to get a word in. I have a more traditional (Open Source GPL) Flash IDE project which is based off of the Open Source Flex SDK. Its in C# .NET and via MonoDevelop, Cairo and GTK+ will port well to linux and OSX. Porting is on my list of TODOs for the next 2 weeks. Check it out at http://dialect.openmodeling.net./
Am I the only one who read this as Sausage Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux?
Ever try to install Windows alongside an existing OS?
I had Windows NT4, FreeBSD, BeOS, and Rhapsody DR1 running on the same PC.
It's not that bloody hard.
Hell, I had Windows 2000, FreeBSD, and BSD running on a Toshiba Libretto. That puppy was maxed out with 64M RAM.
IT'S NOT THAT HARD, except that Microsoft deliberately makes it harder than it needs to be.
The way I see it, it's good that we have a mostly homogeneous OS market.
Well, except for Windows, we do. Pretty much everything else is UNIX.
As for Microsoft, I wouldn't mind them so much being an evil empire if they were a competent evil empire. But it's over 10 years now and they STILL haven't fixed the whole IE / ActiveX security mess.