Skype, automatix, and more (Re: Fesity unstable? (Re: DUAL BOOT -- 6.10/7.04 Herd 4?))

[Maurice Murphy]

Oh dear, guys! I'm sorry I asked the question!

Maurice

Jean-François Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Peter Whittaker <pwwnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 15:48 -0500, Maurice Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>> Can you run Skype with your 7.04?  When I tried it under Herd 2, I got
>>> some nasty rejection messages.  How about audio/video codecs?  (I note
>>> that Automatix2 is not yet available for 7.04).
>>>       
>> I've no experience with either kype or Automatix. I won't use Skype
>> because it is a closed and proprietary system; I won't use Automatix
>> because it does - or at least in the past has done - some very
>> questionable things to force software installation. There are tales of
>> Automatix completely hosing a system, and, having looked at the code, I
>> can believe them.
>>
>>     
> *rubber stamp* I approve this message :)
>
>   
>> I've had good results under Edgy with EasyUbuntu and with the write-up
>> on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
>>
>> Under Feisty, the system has so far auto-detected whenever I've needed a
>> restricted codec or software, and has prompted me to install whatever
>> I've needed, after warning me that it may be illegal where I live.
>>
>> But then again, all of the software I have installed comes from the
>> Ubuntu repos, so it's all integrated.
>>
>>     
> I do think it's also the better way to do things. If you want
> proprietary codec support from the get-go you just have to install the
> gstreamer-0.10 bad(-multiverse) and ugly(-multiverse) packages and
> you're basically done.
>
>   
>>> I have run Herd 4 as a live disk and things look very promising
>>> including the neat Control Panel.
>>>       
>> Different strokes for different folks, as they say: Control Center
>> (misspelled, too) is my least favourite Feistyism. Under Edgy and all
>> previous releases, it was much quicker - IMHO, of course - to set the
>> preference I was interested in: System, Preferences, Choose. Now, it's
>> System, Control Center, waaaaaiit for it! Find, choose.
>>
>>     
> I hate it too that's why you can reenable the "old way" by editing
> your menu or calling up alacarte directly.
>
>   
>> Way back, under Windows, I always tweaked the UI to expand Control
>> Panel and Printers in the Start Menu, for similar reasons: If you know
>> what you are looking for, it is much easier and faster to go directly
>> to it than to bring up yet another application. Sadly, I've not found
>> Control Center preferences under Control Center.
>>
>>     
> See above for help :)
>
>   
>> pww
>>
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