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Mark Jose wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2007 15:54, Tom Potts wrote: > >> On Friday 09 March 2007 12:28, james kilty wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 08:58 +0000, Tom Potts wrote: >>> >>>> First we have MS office wasting PC time now this: >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6430000/news >>>> id _6432800?redirect=6432893.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1 >>>> >>> I tried. I seem to need real player. Kubuntu found it straight away >>> (10.5): First it said it was available, then when I clicked on "install" >>> it said unavailable. So I went to addons.mozilla (I am using Firefox) >>> and have ended with realplayer10Gold.bin on my desktop. >>> >>> What is the next step please? Is there a message I can send to the BBC? >>> >>> james kilty >>> http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk >>> >> its something like: >> chmod +x realplayer10Gold.bin >> ./realplayer10Gold.bin >> >> I think that only makes it work for your user - not sure - long time since >> I done it >> Tom te tom te tom >> > > Since you have Kubuntu, simply right clicking and selecting Properties will do > the trick. Under the Permissions tab, just tick the "Is Executable" box and > you can then launch it by clicking. > Basically, you are doing chmod +x as mentioned by Tom, but in a "user > friendly" way ;) > > Mark > > What is needed here, is a small message on these screens to explain in more technical terms whats happening, to the user., but in such a way that it's helpful, to both them and the more advanced user who would read the above and think, ah yes I see what its doing. If you make something too user friendly you end up with a windows situation where xyz happens in the background without the users knowledge. Paul -- DCLUG Meeting date SATURDAY 17th March 2007 10am - 4pm - The old Monastery, Berry Road, Paignon http://www.myspace.com/theoldmonastery http://www.zleap.net http://www.openoffice.org http://www.linux.org -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html