[ale] weird mouse problem

[Lightner, Jeff]

RHEL6 beta v2 is out - maybe that does it better?

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 2:24 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] weird mouse problem

 

 

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

On 09/09/2010 01:51 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 01:11 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
>
>> Not even that.  Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't display video out of the box
>> without installing codecs that a novice user would have no idea
about.
>> No reasonable documentation either.
>>
> If you tried to play a video that there are codecs packaged for in
> Ubuntu, and you weren't automatically prompted to install the codes
when
> you opened the video in Totem (GNOME's movie player), please file a
bug. [0]
>

In one case, it did prompt me to install the codec but it didn't work,
it's been too long since so I can't recall the details.  It either
couldn't find the codec, failed to install for some reason or even after
the codec was installed, it still didn't work.  I

> If you don't think the documentation available through the Help entry
> under the System menu (or online [1]) isn't good enough, you can file
a
> bug about that too [2] (or even join the documentation team [3] if
> you're ambitious).
>

A novice user can't even define codec,  much less know to look in the
docs for the answers, especially when his experience with the "other"
system didn't require anything special, it just worked.

Don't get me wrong, I've been running Linux since 0.12 kernel in '91 and
am 100% behind it.  I've been working on computers since the mid '60s
and if I get frustrated sometimes, think what a first time user of Linux
might think.  A year ago I thought Linux was ready for the desktop, but
since then I've attempted Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Centos desktop


ouch! RedHat/Centos on the desktop is a kludge even with EPEL repo.
Fedora on the desktop actually works. Add the rpmfusion free and
non-free repos and lastly add the libdvdcss from livna (the only file
hosted there - it allows playing encrypted commercial DVDs)
 

	installs
	where things just didn't work well.  In some cases I was able to
work
	around or fix the problem, in the case of Kubuntu, I filed a bug
which
	is still being looked at an prevents me from logging in with no
workaround.

	
	> I know it can be annoying to hear someone say "it should work,
file a
	> bug", but if the technical users take a few minutes to do this
then the
	> experience should get better for the novice users.
	>

	I'm somewhat guilty of that, it's true.

	> [0] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-codec-install
	> [1]
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/musicvideophotos/C/video-playback.html
	> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/
	> [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam
	>
	>

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