On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:35, Janne Karhunen wrote:
You need to know quite a bit - mainly which package solves which problem.
Agree. This is the problem, and since AJ introduced patterns there is obviously will to change something, but I thinks that the closest grouping that is answer on the problem already existed before as Package Groups. But, there is old saying that points to actually problem: "In order to ask the right question one has to know part of the answer." If one has no clue how to solve some real world problem, there is no way to present him softare that solves problem. Words that you have to use describing some software are professional jargon. Professional jargon is not invented to mystify knowledge, but to speed up communication. It is pure efficiency issue. While it is possible to communicate some ideas with simple expressins, for their full transfer it is impossible to skip special expressions used in trade. What is actually school about? It is long string of lessons how to express yourself efficiently. For instance, Ohm's Law. There is at least 45 minutes lesson about it. How to talk about electricity and include ideas behind Ohm's Law, without mention this two words. That expression is included in some more sophisticated definitions, and so on. You end up using words that no one except your trade can understand, but you can't skip them. When advocating simplicity you have to define what level of education your public have. Simple for expert, practicing trade for 10 years, or simple for first grader.
Videos do not play, browser plugins do not work, etc. I'm amazed how things like this can be overlooked in a system that is supposed to be desktop ready :/
This is really completely different pair of shoes. First, multimedia is not the only desktop task, and IMHO it is not the task that we need computer for. Repeating that it is not desktop ready because it is not able to play mp3 audio, sounds to me strange. Computer is not and will never be main entertainment source for majority of population. How much effort and learning is necessary to listen mp3 music comparing to radio and any other device that are developed just for that purpose. My radio is fully automatic, expert driven, cheap etc, entertainment machine. It is very simple to use. All I have to know about is how to turn it on, find the station and set a volume. I don't need computer to listen a music (and similar for video). For the tasks where radio isn't the best choice, for instance calculations, I need computer, but Linux was ready for that long time ago. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org