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- openSUSE 10.2 had a great reception. The feedback about the light updater and YaST improvements are positive.
- What do you think Chile’s media and people is talking about? Blogged it apart.
- My brother sent me this video of Hans Rosling at TED Conference 2006. Check this website after seeing the video.
- Nürnberg is starting to freeze
- Bought the Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby book, but still haven’t had time to look at it. I have played with QtRuby a lot anyway.
I am very partial to Suse and have used it for many years. I am currently on a friend’s computer, but I do notice the improvements to the Yast installer, but there are a huge number of issues with Suse 10.2. Here’s my list:
1) Double clicking on an rpm in KDE does nothing when zmd is not installed. This used to work prior to Suse 10.1 but got messed up during the zmd fiasco. Now that the new zypper tool is in place and functional, this last one problem needs to be fixed as double clicking an rpm should use the new zypper infrastructure.
2)Knotify still consumes 100% of the CPU at times for no reason. It has been doing this since Suse 10, perhaps even earlier.
3) Amarok, kaffeine and xinelib are crippled for no good reason. There are no legal requirements to do this as kaffeine and Amarok on their own do not do anything without the required plug-ins. Just to be perfectly clear, we are not asking Novell to enable MP3 or DVD playback. What we are asking Novell to do is to leave these programs alone so that if a user installs the required codecs and plugins, these applications can play MP3s or DVDs. Currently, the Novell version needs to be uninstalled and substituted with one downloaded from the pacman repository in what for most new users is a less than intuitive process.
4) Evolution 2.8.2 keeps forgetting my account passwords, which means that I have to continually re-enter them. Not fun.
5) The new applications menu is a mess because it cannot be easily memorized or held in view with one single click which helps a user establish and learn a workflow. Additional problems are the sub-menus of the main menu changing by only hovering over them rather than by clicking on them. But even this behavior isn’t consistent as this is true for the lower menus at the bottom of the screen (Favorites, History, Computer Applications, Leave) but not true for the expandable “Applications” menu.
5a) The open menu on mouse-hover option does nothing whether it is enabled or disabled. 5b) Notice that I am not alone in expressing perplexity at this new menu. Joe Barr comments: (Reference: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/11/1526210)
6) Every time I try to open a CD-ROM on my laptop, I get the following error:
“A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface “org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume” member “Mount” error name “(unset)” destination “org.freedesktop.Hal”)”
I obviously did not implement this security policy and was not asked to approve it. Since this appears to be on by default, this means that most users will be completely flabbergasted as to why they can no longer read their CDs.
I thought this might be related to AppArmor so I disabled it but I am still unable to read CDs.
7) I chose to install KDE instead of Gnome, yet in order to install Evolution, almost the entirety of the Gnome desktop is installed. The same ins’t true for other distributions.
8a) ZMD is still a broken piece of garbage . Reference: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/11/1526210
9) Coherence of fonts between Gnome, KDE and Openoffice applications is not there yet. While the fonts in all apps are certainly readable, font sizes vary too much from one application to the next one.
10) In some apps, Ctrl+S searches, in others Ctrl+F does the same. Kwrite is an example of the former, an Firefox or openoffice of the latter. Unified keyboard shortcuts for common operations are a must. What’s worse, this isn’t exclusively a toolkit issue as some KDE applications use Ctrl+S to save, some to search and some to do both.
11) Alt-tab no longer works on KDE to switch between tasks.
12) All of my NFS openoffice documents open read-only. The uids and gids match and are the same ones used by Ubuntu on this dual-boot laptop. Prior to Suse 10.2, Suse 10 had no problems with this and no other program has a problem either. This must be the strangest permissions problem I have seen as it only affects OpenOffice on Suse 10.2.
Gonzalo
13 Dec 06 at 12:51 am
The first paragraph is ok here, but for 1-12 I think you are looking for http://bugzilla.novell.com
Also, I see zmd there. Did you try the light package stack?
duncan
13 Dec 06 at 5:31 am
for 8 try zypper -v (verbose)
duncan
13 Dec 06 at 5:33 am
With regard to 6:
I experienced the same problem. As a user I could not mount any removable media. However as root everything worked fine. The answer appeared to be very simple. In YAST -> Security and Users -> User Management: the Default Group for the user was set to “unknown”. Changing this entry to “users” resolved the problem.
Good luck
Klaas Groenier
7 Feb 07 at 11:34 am