On Friday 31 July 2009 00:09:48 Dean Hilkewich wrote:
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
I totally agree with the one-click procedure, no problems with that. But we should at least make the one-click link easy to access. In the present implementation one is lead through a series of links and choices before one can actually 'one-click' the installer that does the job. Also the one-click installer leads to conflicts sometimes which require user-interaction, and not of an easy kind at all, for somebody new. So it is not just as easy as clicking next as long as done. I hope it were. With zypper as far as I understand, you can set a repo priority and use the non-interactive mode to achieve the above results without requiring user-interaction. The script can finally remove the repo, or leave it as it is. I don't think this is the way ahead too, but if one is to stick to the one- click installer it would be important to make the one-click install link easier to access. Or perhaps there might be better ways of doing this than either of these. My point is: this feature of the distribution targets newcomers specifically and as such requires considerable improvement. Thanks and bye -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org