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Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the flash-still-evil dept.

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."

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  1. Link and Summary by 26199 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:Link and Summary by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If the only aim was to generate swf files, this was already possible using vnc2swf. If the aim was to produce a replacement for Flash, then it seems to have failed.

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  2. The link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The link is a lie.

  3. can't comment.. by rucs_hack · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all if I did, someone would only mark it as native .flame bait

  4. Track Jumping by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

    being a cross-platform tool That's what we used to call the people who jumped tracks instead of taking the overpass at the train station.
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  5. What about a player? by Epistax · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

    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 :P