Effects in Cheese on F15

[Dave McNeill]

I don't think the tutorial needs to be rewritten. I just think that the
feature/link on the main page should be removed.

On 6 September 2011 17:32, Paolo Cadiz <pscadiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> what program would you like to have a tutorial on? i am willing to write a
> tutorial for the site, as long as i know the program of course.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Elad <el.il at doom.co.il> wrote:
>
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>>
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Paolo Cadiz <pscadiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's broken in mine as well.
>>>
>>> Lenovo G460 - itegrated webcam
>>> Cheese does not crash upon selecting Effects, but effects are distorted
>>> and unusable.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Dave McNeill <dave.mcneill at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hmm - I thought it was just me at first. I tried on the following
>>>> platforms:
>>>>
>>>> - Dell Optiplex 755 with USB webcam (F15, x86-64)
>>>> - Dell Latitude E6410 with built-in webcam (F15, x86-64)
>>>> - Asus Eeepc 1000HE with built-in webcam (F15, i386)
>>>>
>>>> All exhibited the same problem - when selecting an effect, cheese
>>>> crashes.
>>>>
>>>> So I though I'd report my issue via ABRT (see bugzilla link below) -
>>>> turns out I was the 17th person to report the same issue (that was back on
>>>> 24th June - about 1 month after release). Now, a total of 38 reports have
>>>> been filed (one wonders how many are suffering this issue who haven't
>>>> configured ABRT to file to RH Bugzilla). The latest was yesterday. In my
>>>> estimation, that is badly broken.
>>>>
>>>> The greatest pity is that I persuaded my son to have F15 on his Eeepc as
>>>> a replacement for Windows. The selling point was that Cheese was just like
>>>> Photobooth on the Mac.
>>>>
>>>> Still, if it works for you...
>>>>
>>>> Dave McNeill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5 September 2011 17:45, Elad <el.il at doom.co.il> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Dave McNeill <dave.mcneill at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suggest you remove the 'Have a Photobooth Party' feature on the
>>>>>> Fedora Project homepage, since it is clear that effects in Cheese are badly
>>>>>> broken in Fedora 15.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697209
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Dave McNeill
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Clearly broken?
>>>>> Works here perfectly.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -Elad Alfassa.
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Paolo Leandro S. Cadiz
>>> B Library and Information Science
>>> School of Library and Information Science
>>> University of the Philippines - DIliman
>>>
>>> Member, UP Linux Users' Group
>>>
>>> (+63)9175143863
>>> pscadiz at gmail.com
>>> http://paolocadiz.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> I would happily replace the cheese tutorial with another one, if someone
>> will step up to write one (and if I'll get permission from whoever is in
>> charge on this).
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Elad Alfassa, Fedora websites team.
>>
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>
>
> --
> Paolo Leandro S. Cadiz
> B Library and Information Science
> School of Library and Information Science
> University of the Philippines - DIliman
>
> Member, UP Linux Users' Group
>
> (+63)9175143863
> pscadiz at gmail.com
> http://paolocadiz.com/
>
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