New feature: easy codec installation, please test

[Saad Shakhshir]

This is a prime example of a feature that ubuntu can offer and windows can't
and it takes us one step closer to fixing bug #1.

It worked without a hitch on my machine.  Major usability improvement.
Great job guys.

-Saad-

On 1/30/07, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> During the distro sprint we did the remaining changes to get a working
> EasyCodecInstallation [1] on feisty, thank to Ian Jackson, Tim-Philipp
> Müller and Michael Vogt for their work on that specification.
>
> Using the current packages, if you try to open a file from
> totem-gstreamer without having the required codecs installed
> gnome-app-install will be started and make easy for you to install the
> corresponding packages.
>
> For example, trying to play a mp3 from the stock installation will
> suggest to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly. If you don't have
> universe activated, and want to use it, gnome-app-install will that easy
> for you as well. There is no need to restart the application after the
> plugin installation, the file should just start playing.
>
> Feedback on that new feature is welcome, feel free to open bugs with the
> "easy-codec-installation tag or to reply that mail
>
> Michael is going to do a gnome-app-install update today fixing some
> glitches we noticed, you might want to wait and try with the new version
> before opening a bug on it
>
>
> Sebastien Bacher
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyCodecInstallation
>
>
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