Feature changed by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #306917, revision 2 Title: Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: At the moment the execution of opensuse-codecs-installer leads to a rather unnerving chain of events for beginners starting with the webpage. http://software.opensuse.org/codecs?client_version=10.3.1&lang=en_GB. UTF-8&os_release=openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)&kernel=2.6.27.23-0.1- default&gstreamer=gstreamer-utils-0.10.21-3.13& The request is to either have a different implementation of codec- installer itself (for example, clicking the search for codecs button on the codec installer automatically starts a one-click-installer for installing required multimedia packages), or improve the codec- installer website to make things easy (reduce number of clicks required to just 1 or 2) and trivial (ie. no decision-making about fluendo/community, etc). Use Case: New user (openSUSE virgin ;) , i.e., any MAN or WOMAN who hasn't used openSUSE yet, possibly only has used windows till now) tries to play an mp3 file. Then the following sequence starts: 1) Codecs-installer pops up. 2) User clicks on install codecs (preferably call it restricted- multimedia support). 3) Browser opens, shows up website with version of opensuse and desktop environment detected. 4) User clicks to start one-click installer. 5) Installatin completes, user retries playing mp3 file, it works, user happy. + Discussion: + #1: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) (2009-07-19 23:50:31) + The present sequence of processes while installing restricted-formats + has drawbacks: + + 1) The first page gives option between Fluendo and Community codecs, + leading to confusion/decision making. Fluendo support will be dead by + the time 11.2 releases, so this needs a change anyway. + 2) Clicking on the Community codecs further leads to the following + page: http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia which is, in itself, + even more confusing. + 3) It may not be very clear to the user that he/she needs to click on + the restricted formats link in the first paragraph of the page. + 4) Clicking on the above link takes one to the following webpage + http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats + 5) whereupon, one needs to click the link corresponding to version of + openSUSE he/she is using. + 6) Here one is again presented choice between KDE and Gnome codecs, and + one has to click the corresponding .ymp link to start the one-click + installer process which will definitely require more than one-click. + How many clicks to get to the installer process starting from clicking + on the codec-installer application? 5 (not even counting the one-click + installer clicks that will now take over). For a newbie this is not + easy at all.<!--EndFragment--> + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306917