Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 19:22 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 July 2009 05:27:57 pm Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > After install first screen should be  these services  are available to
> > switch on  please select the services you want or need   ,, 
> What OS is offering such screen - functionality ?  

None, because it is a usability nightmare.  

Normal user response: "Eh? What is all this stuff?"

> If you want to turn services off and on then you have to look in the system 
> configuration. 
> In openSUSE that is YaST > System > System Services. 
> Desktop configuration is in Configure Desktop. 
> Problem is that Beagle, Pulse Audio and maybe some more, are not part of KDE 
> and Configure Desktop doesn't know about them. First is not system service so 
> it doesn't appear in YaST, second is hidden in audio settings, but it should 
> be no problem when kernel is fixed for desktop use. 

To disable Beagle: System / Filesystem / Search Settings / uncheck [if
it is checked] "Start search & indexing services automatically" 

Seems pretty straight-forward to me.

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