https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179475 ------- Comment #13 from s.handgraaf@xs4all.nl 2007-02-18 07:53 MST ------- (In reply to comment #12)

It starts from the beginning again... There is simply no such thing as "information how to configure Totem to use codecs" because every plugin has its own installation instructions

Andreas, please remain professional. I dont ask for all that. I just try to make SUSE and Totem more userfriendly implemented with my report. Please have a look at Totem in SUSE from user perspective. Current situation from my point of view: user installes Gnome. Users want to play common media file. SUSE presents Totem. Totem complaints there are no codecs or plugings for the mediatype. User is left out in the dark how to use Totem from there. No configuration information, no explaination at al why SUSE does not come with the codecs or plugings.

Totem is configured as the default player because otherwise you wouldn't be able to use it _at_all_ even if you had all codecs.

It as being a specific media file?

Totem is not a SUSE product, this is the way it comes from ftp.gnome.org and SUSE distributes it as-is. Users are informed from within SUSE just the way the totem developers designed it, with the following GUI error message that contains correct information: "You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins."

With the current legal situation, codecs have to come from 3rd parties and 3rd party products have their own installation instructions. MS Windows doesn't let you open PDF files "out of the box" either

With the major difference MS OSes dont couple non openable file types to the out of the box software and/or even give pointers to users to search for needed software.

I wonder why it's so difficult to explain that this is the way totem was designed to work by its authors, and why SUSE should patch it to behave differently.

Ergo: push the bug upstream for the current lack of information and configuration options in Totem part and SUSE developers are not responsible for a more userfriendly implementation in SUSE? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.