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What do you think how popular would it be?

Themeing contests are the most popular IMO so this how they got the most community involvement.

Did you install codecs? Like real and win32codecs (from plf). You can install a dozen player if you don't have the right codecs you won't see anything.

For plugins you have to install mplayer-plugin for mplayer. Maybe there are others for other players.

Mandriva is using a point release cycle meaning they backport security and bug fixes from the newer versions until the release is supported but they're not upgrading a software so if you have Firefox 1.0.4 you won't have a newer one it's just patched so it remains secure and stable.

Who said Mandriva doesn't listen to its user base? When they announced the sound contest some users (like yours truly) had the idea why isn't there a theme contest too? So here it is : http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/ConcoursSummer2006

As you can see there's no English translation yet I will post it when it's available.

Tinks most of the software you think is in the Mandriva repos. Maybe they're not on the CDs or DVD but there are Mandriva packages.

For login\logoff music there is a Mandriva sound contest.

Mandriva is packaging software and not writing it so tips like "don't use GNOME fileopen dialogs in KDE with Firefox" and "avoid using multiple windows like GIMP" are pointless.

I agree that the MCC is far from ideal, but anyways, for (guess) 75% of the users, it works flawlessly. I agree that thinks can and should be improved in the MCC and I think that it is possible to make it much better. E.g. if you simply make the MCC only a graphical frontend to the already existing configuration tools, then you do not have to recode the MCC over and over again.

 

Let's take a look at e.g. the network-wizard. In Gnome and KDE, there exist several tools for configuring your Network card (eth), your dial-up modem etc. If the MCC would simply start - let's say - network-config for Gnome in the centralized window, then all upgrades/improvements of network-config would automatically make it into the MCC as it only "stores" the config-tool in its frame. This would make things easier for users if they switch from one distro to another and it would make the MCC less buggy as it does not use its own apps for configuring things. A spointed out, things might be configured by another tool possibly in a different way that Mandriva every imagined and this - surely can cause trouble. (Although the MCC has been very stable for me)

 

I hope you get the idea. Attached is a simple, rough sketch of what I have been talking about.

What about those who don't use GNOME or KDE? They have to install kdebase and half of GNOME just for dependencies?

I agree with most of what arctic and others said, but can not refrain from adding my two cents:

 

It would be good if the next mdk did not miss the latest releases of KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird.

These are probably the most important "work horse" applications, and they really should be of late release.

It would also be good if the included X-version actually worked.

Practical examples:

 

A.) I often receive .odt files from clients, but mdk can not open them with ancient OO-versions which makes mdk 2005 and mdk 2006 useless for my work.

 

B.) I need to record audio-files via the headset microphone. In Suse 10.0 I can add the very much needed +20dB to the microphone input, but the older mixer and sound recorder (Gnome 2.8) in mdk does not have this feature yet. Because of this, mdk is useless for my work.

C.) In a very security-sensitve situation, I really should have latest Thunderbird and Firefox. But with mdk 2006 and 2005 having both of them in ancient 1.0xxx versions, I can not use Mozilla's update function which only works with versions 1.5xx and later. So I am forced to stick with less secure Internet software, something which I should definitly not be doing.

D.) One of my computers has a NVIDIA MX440 video card, and a Samsung SyncMaster 700s + CKG7507L monitor. With that combination, there is no way mdk 2006 can be installed using regular means. After installation, the monitor only displays horizontal psychedelic colour stripes. This can initially be corrected by using mcc via a console. But after adding NVIDIA drivers, nothing including the mcc via a console, or editing xorg.conf can make it work again! Then only Knoppix or DamnSmallLinux can retrieve my data before making a reinstall of an older mdk (2005) version.

Maybe there wasn't a package of those in 2003 and there wasn't 13000 packages in the Mandriva repos in 2003.

Thanks. But I doubt that they will include them as I am not finished yet. :lol:

 

Okay, on a more serious note: It would only make some sense to include them by default if they decide to switch the complete icon theme to Tango in both KDE and Gnome. I don't think that this will happen in Mandriva 2007, to be honest, as - afaik - Tango is more popular on Gnome than KDE, for whatever reason.

Ehmm.... I included this link here. So they may already know about it.

Which GNOME is in Fedora? 2.14? Mandriva has 2.10 or 2.12 for club members. AFAIK GNOME 2.14 has various speed improvments so no wonder if it's faster.

Mandriva sound contest for the login and logoff music of the 2007 release.

Details

Club forum topic

PCLinuxOS. A Mandrake 9.2 spinoff. And I found this is what Mandriva should be on the desktop.

Advantages: Fresh,stable and great looking not to mention that they are not license trolls so propietary stuff is preinstalled you don't have to setup codecs etc.

LiveCD so it's very easy to install and it's full of apps very likely what you need is already there or in the repo.

Big and helpful community. There are already several PCLinuxOS spinoffs e.g. for kids, gamers edition etc.

Disadvantages: poor localization meaning it's not done automatically you have to setup languages other than English.

KDE centric. If you like GNOME there is only 2.10 yet though a GNOME version is on the way and other wms are available like fluxbox.

Broadband is required.

Usually rolling release is for community distros which has no intention to be in the enterprises. They are more fresh but has smaller repos since they have to keep it fresh. Like PCLOS has about 5000 packages while Mandriva has about 10000.

Point release is for enterprise\corporate distros or for those distros which are the base of enterprise distros. They want stability over freshness so their packages are more outdated but more likely to work and they have bigger repos.

The /usr/share/doc/ directory is the place of the documantation which comes with the packages. So changing /usr/share/doc/dhcp-client-3.0.3 won't have an effect on anything. Most likely it's a sample file. Look for the same looking file in the directory ianw1974 have given.

no.... I just completed the online update and I downloaded 950MB of rpm's... surely they are kept somewhere, or are they deleted after install??? it was 317 packages...

Yes by default they are deleted after install. That's why you should have used the --noclean option.

One shark less (albeit a big one) does not make swimming any safer.

LOL that sums it up pretty good.

I guess he is pretty busy with administrating the official mandriva forum and has no time to check this forum anymore. He does most of the work there alone, at least that's my impression.

He used to but there is another admin now too RJ495 (Rick James). And wobo is there from time to time from the German fan site, though he usualy there to express his (sometimes not too positive) opinion and not to do admin work.

Apache 1.3 and PHP4 are not supported anymore. You can still install them from contrib if you want though.

Ehmm... it was released a month ago.

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/InsideMag02

/usr/bin/gmplayer -quiet -nofs  %U

 

Is that what you've asked for?

Yes. The two options are not relevant in this case. What's confusing me is that %U. It should represent the file name which mplayer should play. But from the little C I learned it should be %s instead of %U.

If I understood correctly when you double click on a video file mplayer starts but can't play the file because it doesn't understand it. So the best I can come up with is this change that %U and see if that helps.

Please explain yourself...

When you double click on a movie file it executes a command with that file. You should check that command in the GNOME file associations in the GNOME CC. I don't have GNOME so I don't know where it is exactly but I'm sure you can find it.

The message means the compiler can't find the specified file hello.c. Try ./hello.c

It is set to be default player. I'm using Gnome: right click>>Options>>Open with>>Mplayer. This works ok for xine and totem but not for mplayer.

Then take a look at how is it set up. Maybe it's using the wrong command.

You should see the boot codes if you boot from the installation CD and press the F1-F12 keys.

I think apt and synaptic is in the repos somewhere but I didn't check, or you can use PCLinuxOS.

The 1999 game by the Polish Metropolis Software House called Gorky 17 (or Odium in the US) has been ported to Linux by Hyperion Entertainment.

The game is a turn based Action/RPG.

It's a commercial game and costs 25 pounds.

Webpage

Demo

Thanks for hup.hu and kovi for the original news.

Damn I forgot about it. Anyway I have the solution thanks to AussieJohn:

The problem is that for some stupid reason Mandriva has made a default of kdm using a theme when none has been installed or selected.

 

You have to go into /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc as root. In kdmrc (opened with kwrite) scroll down and look for a line which reads .....UseTheme=true........and change it to......UseTheme=false.

This problem comes up repeatedly so perhaps the solution should go into tips.

 

Cheers. John.

edit

It's already in Tips&Tricks : https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=29240