Adobe AIR for linux Alpha
I've been very impressed with Adobe AIR, mostly because of the two applications: twhirl and alertthingy. Also its really easy to get AIR applications installed on Windows and Mac OS X.
The installation is quite manual so far in Linux. First go to Adobe labs and download the alpha release.
Run the commands in the above image to install the runtime. Once installed go to twhirls website and download twhirl.
I clicked on the "Open with Adobe AIR Installer", and from their AIR handled the installation prompting for a few options. The applications got added to the desktop, but didn't show up in the KDE Menu. Once started their are some display issues as you can see below:
I guess the black area around the window is where the shadow for the window should be.
Not as easy to install and get going as in Windows/OS X but the experience is not that bad at all.
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Hi,
Could you tell us about your Linux setup - which distribution and window manager (KWin) version do you use? On newer distributions, transparency can usually be enabled through "Desktop Effects" or "Visual Effects" preferences. Does enabling transparency in KWin remove the black areas around the window?
We'd also like to make sure the issue of missing application menu items gets fixed.
You could report details of your setup and any problems you see at http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Thanks,
Ashutosh
Adobe AIR Team
Hi ashutosh,
I am using kubuntu 8.04 beta (Hardy Heron) with KDE4.
Qt: 4.3.4
KDE: 4.0.3
KWin: 3.0
Going to "System Settings" -> Desktop has Desktop effects disabled. I don't want to enable this as I am running inside a virtual machine which the virtual machine video driver, I mention below.I believe the virtual machine video driver only support 2D graphics.
The distribution is running in a virtual machine called Virtualbox. xorg.conf lists vboxvideo as the device driver for video.
Thanks Adnan - we'll track the issue of the application shortcut not appearing in the KDE menu.
You're right - transparency does not usually work in virtual machines.
Ashutosh
Adobe AIR Team
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