Re: [opensuse-factory] It is not the way it seems. Was: KDE3 Kaffeine misses plugins after update.

30 Dec 2008

      Rob OpenSuSE schreef:
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2008/12/29 Oddball :
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Oddball schreef:
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Peter Hoyer schreef:
But you were right.. after adding me to the cdrom group and logging in
again, both players worked as should.
It is not a big deal, but the hassle to find out what is wrong takes
very much valuable time...
If i imagine fresh users have to do that?
They will not go this far, but say: the video player is broken, the
burner does not work, this is a crappy OS, lets go back and suffer the
things we know....
You're right and older version of the OS didn't require this, least
under 10.3, groups "users dialout video" were I think defaults and
sufficed.   OS 11.1 is very new, has a lot of changes, and plenty of
rough edges that need rounding off.
Ofcourse it has to be polished.
When many things change at once, and these are things that better do
*not*  change, because it gets worse instead of better, there are
regular posts about these alterations for the worse, my opinion is to be
very clear about what better does not change, because it is allright the
way it is.
A kind of standard, or tradition, needed to show were something stands for.
In this case it is obvious, and i understand this: not being able to
watch a movie without two days of searching why the player does not
work, and get it to work, will not be (hopefully) the default.

The OS has to serve us, to be able to make things more easy, and less
time-consuming, as there only are 24 hours in the days i am familiar
with, and i am allways short of hours, no matter how early i start in
the morning.

About my standards: Network up, Music, Mail, Browser, Good Office tools,
Movies, Games.
Before that, the OS has to be booted up, to make all this possible.
I know that the best servant is the boss. Surely as long it does not show.

I am proud of an OS that knows all (my) hardware, and how to get the
best performance out of it.
When all works, i like to tune and tweek it to my personal wishes and
feelings, to be as comfortable as possible, working in a very good mood.

I do not want, or need defaults that upset my good mood, and my
positivity, because that harms me, and my surroundings.
I do not know if there are people who think otherwise, but i know that
my mood, determines wetter i am able to deliver a 'good' job, or not.
When my mood drops, it is if my intelligence drops, and i surely don't
like that.
When too many unexpected things happen, that cause special attention and
thus extra time from me, which i don't have, i get angry.
When i get angry, i have to calm myself, and that takes valuable time.

I am not in need of an OS, that is up to upset me.
In that case, i have to look for one that does not.
This takes much valuable time.
That is why i choose to stay with what once suited me best, improve it,
while preserving that what made me choose it.
That is my motive.

If the os changes that much, that it does not longer fullfill my needs,
and i am not longer able to adjust it too my needs, it forces me to look
for another.
The people creating the os are responsible for the reactions they cause.
If they are not logicly asking theirselves: What do i expect from the
os? They will not be capable to maintain the high standards requested to
stay on top, in the race.

Standards have to be set.
Expectations to be met.
Next to this, new things can be developed and tested.
Never replace too many standards, or defaults at once, or upsetting
users will be caused, it is that simple.

We have to guard the standards, so expectations will be met.
If the expectations are met, one is happy, and up to something new, if
nessesary;)

Maby it sounds old school, but there is no school as the old school.. ;)
(please don't loose sense of humour, and do not mistake me for the words
i write..:))

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Enjoy your time around,

Oddball    (M9.)     (Now or never...)

  OS:  Linux 2.6.27.8-1-default x86_64
  Huidige gebruiker:  oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1
  Systeem:  openSUSE 11.2 Alpha 0 (x86_64)
  KDE:  4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) "release 4.18"

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