Making Ubuntu more newuser friendly...

[yester64]

Well, i am using now Suse for a while and one thing about it really liked.
This, i have never seen on Ubuntu and so i thought it might be a good addition for Ubuntu to make installtions easier.

On Suse you have on the forum a 1-Click solution like for restrictive codecs.
It works like this. You click and Yast will open and at a problem give you a couple of options you can do. Like break depentensy or ignore or install.
You answer it by clicking and then it does everything by itself.

Wouldn't that be a nice alternative to the terminal commands?

Where do i put these kind of suggestion anyway?

[wilee-nilee]

Well, i am using now Suse for a while and one thing about it really liked.
This, i have never seen on Ubuntu and so i thought it might be a good addition for Ubuntu to make installations easier.

On Suse you have on the forum a 1-Click solution like for restrictive codecs.
It works like this. You click and Yast will open and at a problem give you a couple of options you can do. Like break depentensy or ignore or install.
You answer it by clicking and then it does everything by itself.

Wouldn't that be a nice alternative to the terminal commands?

Where do i put these kind of suggestion anyway?

These are issues that has been discussed so many times that the answers why it isn't a usable suggestion are within the forum database.

[screaminj3sus]

by default ubuntu should automatically search for a proper codec when you try to play a file that doesnt have the codec installed.

[cariboo]

You don't need to use the terminal to install any codecs in Ubuntu, go to System->Administration->Synaptic, type ubuntu-restricted-extras in the search box, right click on it in the window and select install, click apply, click apply, and watch the packages install. Installing the restricted extras meta package akso installs flash and java, mscorefonts and most of the codecs needed to play most audio/video media.

[3rdalbum]

Well, i am using now Suse for a while and one thing about it really liked.
This, i have never seen on Ubuntu and so i thought it might be a good addition for Ubuntu to make installtions easier.

On Suse you have on the forum a 1-Click solution like for restrictive codecs.
It works like this. You click and Yast will open and at a problem give you a couple of options you can do. Like break depentensy or ignore or install.
You answer it by clicking and then it does everything by itself.

Wouldn't that be a nice alternative to the terminal commands?

Where do i put these kind of suggestion anyway?

Put it into the nearest time machine; Ubuntu already offers to install a restricted codec the first time you try playing such a file, and it has done so since 2007. Your idea is a great idea, but you're a bit late in suggesting it :-)

[yester64]

maybe i suffer from something, but last time i install ubuntu it did not offer me anything. That was 9.10.
I usually did it with the how-to's from the forum.

So perhaps i missed that.. oh well, one of these days i will try ubuntu again :)

btw. that has nothing to do with this. Oh nevermind, i will try irc for that :)

[3rdalbum]

maybe i suffer from something, but last time i install ubuntu it did not offer me anything. That was 9.10.

Your package list needs to be up-to-date. If you didn't have an internet connection running when you installed Ubuntu, then your package list is not up-to-date and you won't get offered any codecs.

[Nightstrike2009]

How about a Ubuntu application like M$ "Scandisk"? I find if you get a memory card from a camera corrupted you have to resort to ******* and run "scandisk" just to fix it (Very Annoying).

I know this not an ubuntu fault (something to do with ******* not using partition tables) but, its very annoying when you have to do it (Even if Virtualized).

[ssj6akshat]

apt:ubuntu-restricted-extras

[kio_http]

Well, i am using now Suse for a while and one thing about it really liked.
This, i have never seen on Ubuntu and so i thought it might be a good addition for Ubuntu to make installtions easier.

On Suse you have on the forum a 1-Click solution like for restrictive codecs.
It works like this. You click and Yast will open and at a problem give you a couple of options you can do. Like break depentensy or ignore or install.
You answer it by clicking and then it does everything by itself.

Wouldn't that be a nice alternative to the terminal commands?

Where do i put these kind of suggestion anyway?

Not sure about Ubuntu, but in Kubuntu Lucid, I get a popup the first time I launch a multimedia app or web-browser asking me to install the extras,, and providing me with a button to install it.

[Excedio]

by default ubuntu should automatically search for a proper codec when you try to play a file that doesnt have the codec installed.

It does this. Rhythmbox for sure.

[MasterNetra]

You don't need to use the terminal to install any codecs in Ubuntu, go to System->Administration->Synaptic, type ubuntu-restricted-extras in the search box, right click on it in the window and select install, click apply, click apply, and watch the packages install. Installing the restricted extras meta package akso installs flash and java, mscorefonts and most of the codecs needed to play most audio/video media.

Indeed only problem is new users most of the time don't know this. I know I didn't when I started. Its something that should be brought to the users attention early on, via software center and possibly Synaptic.

[yester64]

mm... thats what i meant, i think.
For all the time i used Ubuntu, i do not recall anything like a button for it. Except for the graphicsdriver.