Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Dean Hilkewich <deans.mail.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/07/30 12:08 PM, Atri wrote:
> It will be really nice if 11.2 implements an easier way of installing
> restricted multimedia codecs than that exists currently. The current way of
> doing it via one-click installation is somewhat more complicated than ubuntu's
> codec installer. In my opinion, the entire process could easily be done via a
> script that runs a terminal showing a warning about the usage of restricted
> codecs requiring user-interaction, then calls zypper to add the Packman repo
> and installs/updates the required multimedia packages from that repo. Of
> course there may exist several better ways than what I suggest, but it would
> be worthwhile to explore methods of installing codec support that make it much
> easier for a complete newcomer. In any case this is probably one of the first
> things a home user does, so the ease with which it can be done does influence
> his/her opinion about the distribution somewhat.
>    
What is hard about one-click? Click, enter password and keep clicking 
next until done.  With the exception of the password people have been 
doing this for decades on other OS's.  Having someone drop to cli to run 
a script is completely backwards.

Dean Hilkewich
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