Codecs in gnome-app-install (was Re: Totem any time soon?)

[Wouter Stomp]

On 2/23/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:07 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 15:31 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
> >
> > > you're confusing backend issues with frontend issues, and both of them
> > > with legal issues...
> > If this is the only reason why totem still can't play much after I've
> > installed vlc (from the 'add applications menu) then what about an item
> > in 'add applications' like 'add totem codecs packages'.
>
> Something like this came up on irc recently: the current problem is that
> not all packages are listed in gnome-app-install, and there are some
> very requested packages that appear in the documentation (such as the
> gstreamer plugins). Martin Vogt suggested that we could make single
> packages like these appear in g-a-i, and this might be a decent idea for
> Multimedia Codecs. Please file a bug about this. We should include all
> the potential extra gstreamer plugins if possible (ugly, bad, whatever
> they are currently called).
>

Rejected long time ago: "Bugzilla is not really the place for
discussing such changes."
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/24565

Wouter.