default applications for 15.10

[Steve Ovens]

Personally, I am in favour of more Gnome apps by default. It gives a closer
experience to what the Gnome team intended. To me that is what a spin is
supposed to do . adding some polish as required but generally curating what
upstream apps are ready for consumption.

Just my 2cents.
On Jul 11, 2015 7:10 AM, "Tim" <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Both photos and music were still pretty much in preview state in 3.10,
> both have progessed significantly if you look at the 3.16 versions.
>
> How is totem relevant to the discussion? Thats not going away or anything!
>
> On 11/07/15 19:02, Jackson Doak wrote:
> > It's worth noting this will be gnome-photos 3.16, which is far more
> feature complete.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net
> <mailto:informatica at actiu.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     I've tried now Gnome-photos 3.10 and I see it basicaly focused as
> image
> >     explorer and viewer. Shotwell is mainly focused to organization.
> >     Eye of GNOME already does the basic job and it doesn't pretend to do
> >     other big tasks.
> >
> >     Trying gnome-music 3.10 I see a very poor tool with few usability,
> and
> >     with lack of information about what are you seeing in the window and
> why.
> >     Totem is more transparent to the user and only gets what it's
> solicited.
> >
> >
> >     El 11/07/15 a les 08:25, Tim ha escrit:
> >     > Hey All,
> >     >    We have been saying for a while we would switch the default
> media apps to the new GNOME ones once they mature, rather than inheriting
> the
> >     > Ubuntu defaults. These apps have now had a few cycles to brew up
> and are a much better fit for the GNOME DE.
> >     >
> >     > The main changes would be:
> >     >  - shotwell replaced by gnome-photos
> >     >  - rhythmbox replaced by gnome-music
> >     > -  Possibly add the getting started guide (but english only, its
> too big to fit on images otherwise)
> >     > - Infrastructure for gnome-software is not ready in debian/Ubuntu
> so that will come later likely in one of the 16.x releases
> >     >
> >     > What does everyone think? Note this mainly only affects new
> installs, upgrades will keep the old apps also.
> >     >
> >     > Tim
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
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