[tde-users] New distro features poorly introduced (was Who controls XF86RaiseVolume / XF86LowerVolume?)

On Wednesday 29 May 2024 05:29:53 you wrote: Something that continually irritates me is the way that new features are "introduced" with a new software release. With few exceptions, I discover them AFTER upgrading: openSUSE introduced systemd, dbus, wickd, update-alternatives, PulseAudio, Pipewire, all with no notice to the end-user community; often they were not listed in the Release Notes for the new version, either; and in some cases, e.g. PulseAudio and Pipewire, significant components: gstreamer-plugin-pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulseaudio were not installed, (even though Pipewire is described as "A Multimedia Framework designed to be an audio and video server...", important audio subsystems even pipewire-doc was not installed by default. In the case of PulseAudio, many subsystems are not even named appropriately by the openSUSE packagers so that they can be associated with PulseAudio: pavucontrol = PulseAudio Volume Control pavucontrol-qt = Qt port of pavucontrol pavumeter = PulseAudio Volume Meter who knew to look for them by that name? It might not be so bad if, in some cases like systemd and wickd, they had not replaced all of the familiar commands with totally new ones generally with non-intuitive names; and don't get me started with Btrfs and snapshotting, which were introduced as defaults with no warning at all, so that many users found their hard drives filled up with snapshots that they didn't realized had been created. I suppose I am totally spoiled from working in the IBM mainframe environment, where every package (OS and its subsystems, networking, compilers, editors, ...) provided a Migration Guide with its new release... Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0