The theme stuff is most likely due to the 3rd-party icon theme I was using. That I think can be safely ignored...I was more worried about the Ubuntu One and plugin stuff it spat out near the bottom.
I would agree that the playback support is one of those things that should just work as soon as it is installed. Similar to what you said, you and I would likely try a restart to get the plugin to work like on Oneiric, but the average user isn't going to think of trying that. Instead, they'll try playing some music right away thinking they're all set, then they'll end up being offered plugins of questionable legality (i.e. US software patent concerns) and either install them when they don't need to or be scared off/confused by all the cryptic terminology and packages being shown to them. Music playback is one of those things most casual users use their computers for, and 99% of the time their files will be in MP3 format whether we like it or not. That's why I find it distressing that, at least in my case, getting this basic functionality set up is horribly broken. I would sincerely hope I (and others) don't run into it again in the final LTS release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical Partner Developers, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10-fluendo- plugins-partner in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932103 Title: Cannot install MP3 playback support; silently fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10-fluendo-plugins-partner/+bug/932103/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev Post to : canonical-partner-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
