Comments on: Codec install in Fedora 10

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By: backup

backup — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:23:55 +0000

It’s not bad, just redundant (and still better than my non existent GUI). Keep up the good work.

I suggest simply axing the second sentence.

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:54:02 +0000

backup: No, I guess we don’t — I’m really bad at GUIs. The good news is I accept patches

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:49:08 +0000

anonymous: I’ve fixed the window width problem, thanks.

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:48:32 +0000

Thomas Vander Stichele: They can still use the fluendo codec store (or the ubuntu one) it’s up to the distro to define the link if nothing is found in the repos.

By: hughsie

hughsie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:47:27 +0000

Rahul: yes, we’re working on that now — see my Vendor.conf mail to the mailing list.

By: Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:41:38 +0000

I would probably swap the “Close”-buttons to “Cancel”-buttons.
Close are used for instant apply windows.

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:38:00 +0000

what happens when rpmfusion is not preinstalled? Would it be possible to direct users to something useful?

By: patrys

patrys — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:59:48 +0000

My impression:

The first window tells yo nothing as you are always expected to press “search”. It’s just there to modally block the player (not that anyone would like to play the next track in their playlist while waiting for the codec to install).

The second “searching” window could as well become a cluebar at the top of the player window…

…and instantly change to the “codec found [details]” cluebar that shows you the third window – “the following software is required… [install]“.

The installation itself does not need a window at all. Just change the cluebar to “downloading/installing” and tell me when it’s done.

The current situation is not only sub-optimal as it blocks the current window, it blocks all media playback as Totem (for some strange reason) insists on having only one instance open.

By: Tomasz Dominikowski

Tomasz Dominikowski — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:14:29 +0000

Yeah, it’s weird that there are 3 sentences at the beginning saying exactly the same thing.

Could the horrifying (and uninformative for normal users) name of the package be hidden in details? Just “Plugin found. Do you wish to install it” and a “Details >” expander for geeks.

Oh and yes, why does window size change at every step? This doesn’t look good.