On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:06 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > If that software was even integrated into the desktop, you might have a > point. As it is, it integrates in nothing. At least, if the user did a > search on the net, they'd get clues, and read documentation about how to > use it. It doesn't need to integrate into anything, because that's not how you use it. I do wish people wouldn't comment on this without actually using a Harmony remote =) (or at least it seems like that's what you're doing). What you do when you get a Harmony is you go to Logitech's website, where there's a big webapp which lets you tell it what devices you have and which should be activated when you're doing various things and all sorts of other details about how the remote should operate. Then you click on a button to upload the settings to your remote, and the site sends you a file. In Windows, the software Logitech ships on the Harmony disc, that you're supposed to install before going to the website, opens up at this point, tells you to plug the remote into your computer, and uploads the contents of the file to the remote. What happens at this point if you have Concordance installed is that it does exactly what the Windows software does (only, actually, with a somewhat nicer interface). It opens up automatically - it's associated with the MIME types of the files the webapp sends out - and tells you to plugin the remote, then it programs the remote. If you DON'T have Concordance installed, what happens is you get a file download in an odd format which Firefox asks you what it should do with, and you get confused. You're never supposed to launch Concordance manually in normal usage, that's not how the whole system of using a Harmony remote is supposed to work. That's why it, intentionally, does not have a menu entry. Again, it was only an example! I wasn't expecting to have to write an essay on how it works. Sigh. (Admittedly the proposed automatic-package-install-on-hardware-connection idea doesn't quite fit in with the Harmony paradigm, but again, it was only one example I thought of off the top of my head, because I happen to be familiar with it). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
