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Originally Posted by rj5620
Just picked up on this thread and I too would like to give my opinion. I am an end user and have not used my 770 for anything except surfing the net. I guess that is what is intended. Anyway, I have said before that I don't want to learn Linux and find it impossible to install any other software that I occasionally see mentioned on this site. Friends ask about my 770 and I tell them it is too complicated for their use. For Christmas, my son gave me an Xbox 360 with HD DVD drive and it was a snap to use. I just think the device is a techy gizmo and isn't ready for the general public.
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Well, I don't share the opinion that installation of software on Nokia 770 is hard (or is intended to be hard). Some packages are available without any extra dependencies (such as MPlayer, yes, that's a shameless advertisment :) ) and can be installed with only a single click on a .deb file. May I try to use you as a guinea pig? ;) I would appreciate if you visited Maemo MPlayer home page and tried to install it. If it is too hard for you, that would be an indication that the instructions there are not good enough and need to be updated. Such kind of testing is also very much welcome.
I agree that repositories take a bit too many steps to configure on the device for ordinary users. So my suggestion is the following: probably we need a 'repository manager' application :) It should install just from the ordinary .deb file with a single click. It should connect to some web resource with some information about existing repositories which are known to contain high quality applications and these repositories should not conflict with each other. This information should be added to local repository list. Sure, it adds one more layer over all this stuff, but it probably can reduce the number of steps that need to be performed to get extra applications installed on the device and make life much easier for non geek users. Also it needs to be secure (the list of repositories should be signed). Thoughts? |
