Hello, On Jul 17 14:38 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote (excerpt):
Am 17.07.2015 um 14:23 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
My primary intent was to show that there is no useful end-user information when an unexperienced user installs openSUSE without Adobe Flash Player and "just browses" the Internet.
If the argument that openSUSE "cannot" provide the software is valid then openSUSE also cannot communicate how to workaround this limitation I guess.
When the user hits web content that cannot be preocessed with software that openSUSE is allowed to provide, then the user does not get useful information what the issue is about and an unexperienced user is then lost.
Yes, thanks to software patents and the US the rest of the world has to suffer.
I do not propose that openSUSE should tell the user what to to to get such software (cf. what Tomas Chvatal wrote). Instead I meant useful information what the issue is about - for example a popup in Firefox like: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening i248rqwejb_dskfz_16473657_oe85.mp4 You have chosen to open: i248rqwejb_dskfz_16473657_oe85.mp4 which is: MP4 file (12.3 MB) from: http://video3.spiegel.de Firefox cannot display that file content because it is a so called "MP4" video it contains a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoded video data stream Firefox cannot find a decoder for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Firefox needs a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC decoder to display that file. Such software is commonly called "H264 codec" or "AVC codec". If you already have H.264/MPEG-4 AVC decoder software installed Firefox cannot find it or cannot use it. For further information see http://support.mozilla.org/de/products/firefox/h264.html Alternatively when you have video player software installed that can display so called "MP4" video files, you could open this file with your video player software program. Finally you could save the file for later use. What should Firefox do now? (*) Show http://support.mozilla.org/de/products/firefox/h264.html ( ) Open this file with [Browse...] ( ) Save File [ ] Do this automatically for files like this from now on. [Cancel] [OK] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Now the popup is no longer generic but its content depends on the file content. This is probably a bigger feature request for Firefox upstream. When clicking [OK] the user gets more information from http://support.mozilla.org/de/products/firefox/h264.html On that Firefox help page I would expect to learn more about what a "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoded video data stream" is and what a "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC decoder" is and also how one could make some commonly known H264 decoder software findable and usable by Firefox and what commonly known H264 decoder software cannot be used by Firefox. I think this could help even unexperienced users because they are no longer left alone with the current generic but basically useless popup. Even if some users might feel overstrained with so many technical terms, they get at least those technical terms known so that they can ask more meaningful questions. "Hey! I tried out your Lunix thingy but it simply fails. Your browser aborts with a blue screen that blabbers about CPU registers like H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and so on!" ;-) Have a nice weekend! Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org