Comments on: The ultimate Fedora 9 setup: Part 1 – UI

By: Sylvain Mino

Sylvain Mino — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:32:13 +0000

Interesting story. I finally decided to dump Windows for my HTPC and go with Fedora.
Many reason why I chose fedora, the main one is I use it at work (redhat) and it will force me to keep my skills up. So any hints for best performing Audio player that can play all files out there, replace or sync up with Itunes on my gaming XP box would be great. I also use 5.1 Surround sound, and connect directly to my 42 inch lcd via hdmi (sound is seperate). I do have two sound cards. One for playing music, and the other for watching movies, so that I can be upstairs listening to music, while the kids watch a movie downstairs. I just need to figure out the best way to do this with fedora. I figure on using a http server for song selection…but which app would be best?

Now I just need to auto launch all my smb connection on bootup so the kids do not have to search where their movies are.

By: hircus

hircus — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:22:48 +0000

Part 2’s still being researched. I’ve been reevaluating my default application set, especially now that Firefox 3 has just come out and some of the plugins I use for it are now available through the normal channels.

By: agony

agony — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:12:13 +0000

where is part 2? :]

By: Michel S.

Michel S. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:48:17 +0000

Point taken; I ought to rephrase that part. Thanks!

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:15:34 +0000

You wrote:

“reinstall … get rid of old cruft ”
“I personally find Metacity much more usable”
“only for advanced users”
“gconf-editor … setting the /apps/metacity/general”
“yum –enablerepo=rawhide”
“type an accented character is rather annoying.”
“consumes RAM even when you don’t use it”

If I was a new user reading your experience I would say that Fedora sucks. Or is only usable and/or modified by someone that has a deep understanding of Fedora. Fedora seams to be seriously lacking a “product as a whole” feel to it. From your post it looks like just pieces haphazardly thrown together.

I have a feeling that you will want to respond to this with something like “this is just my personal preferences and a normal user will not experience this”. But what you are really saying is Fedora needs a reinstall to work at its best, needs tweaking for usability and in the process of making it “better” watch out for those applets that consume “RAM even when you don’t use it!”

With Respect
-Frank