[ale] weird mouse problem

[Jim Kinney]

It is based on fedora 12 so much closer to current desktop features.

On Sep 10, 2010 2:46 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> 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
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> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Jim Lynch
> <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
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> On 09/09/2010 01:51 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
>> On 09/09/2010 01:11 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
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>>> 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]
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> 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
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>> 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).
>>
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> 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.
>
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> > 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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