[Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Interactivity problem in 9.2
Hi, I have interactivity problems with the 9.2 release. I have hear about it in the past, concerning other distribs. This should be fixed in Mandrake 10, or even with 9.2 updates. XMMS makes pauses and clicks when I move windows under a default Gnome 2.4 with the Mandrake 2.4 kernel. I have a 500 MHz CPU, which I think must be supported (it is very fast for what I do with my PC). Maybe this problem doesn't occure on a faster CPU, and maybe that's why the problem already exists. Moreover, I lost a CD-R while burning with gtoaster (i.e. cdrecord). To obtain such a result I opened a directory in XMMS while burning. Here, the CPU was a 1300 MHz Duron, with fast hard disks, and 256 MB of RAM. As usual, I don't know much in the domain of setting the default priorities for X and XMMS. When i make a top, it seems that both are launched with a 0 priority, what is surely a good thing. I'd rather think that it is a kernel problem, since the first problem have disapeard using a 2.6.0-test kernel. I didn't perform tests with the 2.4 vanilla, but I didn't have this problem with it, either with 7.0-7.2 redhats or with 9.0-9.1 mandrakes. Maybe I should post a bug report ? All the way
[Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long]
This message is the result of conversations whith newbies that tried to use Mandrake 9.1/9.2 and after having been conviced and happy with the distribution are re-using Windows more and more for a couple of annoying and easily solvable problems. My point of view about newbie difficulties (which I heard FROM NEWBIES themselves) with Mandrake is that there are roughly four issues: 1. The package 2. The menues 3. The language 4. The license 1. The packages are a good thing but there should be a frontend to the package systems where we talk about apps and plugins. The apps should be organized in a tree that should be understood by the end-user. A typical end-user doesn't know what the graphical environment category could contain, as an exemple. Even desktop or Bureautique or Network should not be seen. More over, only major apps should be shown, with a comment that only says something like Open Office is the leading text writer, spreadsheet tool under Linux, or Abiword is a text writer that is lighter than Open Office... 2. The menues should be nearly empty, with only newbie oriented apps in it. A First level should only contain the labels Internet (netwok doesn't mean much for a user, and less correctness on language is sometime a good thing), Programs, Multimedia, Sound (A newbie doesn't think about sound being multimedia), Close The System (session is har to understand too). Typically a user only needs a multimedia player, a sound player, a desktop suite, a web browser, a mail reader, tools for burning CDs and rip CDs. 3. I focused hear on the french translation but it also applies to others. Every term like réseau environnent graphique bureautique is technical for a newbie and shouldn't be used. Maybe whe should have a franglais mode where we read plugin and not greffon and so on. I understand that it is not such an important thing. Such a mode would only be usefull for mid-newbies that know what is a plugin, but not a greffon. Total newbies doesn't know what is a plugin. 4. A newbie doesn't know PLF, and as a consequence can't make as many things as with windows with is Mandrake. Lincensing and Patent issues are a mess for newbies that aren't aware of that problem. Here there is no technical solutions, only poltical ones...
Re: [Cooker] 9.2 download CD size
A 3 650 Mb CD pack should be fine, it should be enough to put a standard desktop for the end-user. Maybe even a 2 CD interbational release, with 2 aditional CDs with more apps.
Re: [Cooker] Totem as default mp3 player for Galeon?
Götz Waschk a écrit : Am Samstag, 13. September 2003, 07:26:34 Uhr MET, schrieb Larry Nguyen: Installed RC2 and selected all the Usual Suspect for a workstation. Fired up Galeon, went to my online mp3 collection (mind ya! I have the original CDs), click on a playlist, xmms is not listed there. Totem couldn't play it. You could file a bug report against totem. What was the error message and what was the file type? It might no be a good idea to ship totem as a default multimedia player int the 9.2 release. I just downloaded it and it crashed when launching files from Nautilus (at the beginning, after a few retries it worked ). I next tried to play with preferences and it crashed after a few clicks. Going to do a bit of bug reporting...
