default applications for 15.10

[Narcis Garcia]

My first impression of gnome-music was due to this (Tracker as provider
of content): it seems an absolute chaos, with no control about where do
the files come from.


El 11/07/15 a les 14:54, Alfredo Hernández ha escrit:
> Leo, you can't set the music library and never will (at least from GNOME
> Music itself) because it's Tracker the daemon that takes care of everything.
> 
> I agree on Photos; it's still very basic, but that should end really
> soon
> (see https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/blob/master/photos/wires-editing.png).
> 
> On 11 July 2015 at 09:43, Leo Francisco <lists at boywithwings.co.uk
> <mailto:lists at boywithwings.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     That sounds like a really good idea. We would be loosing some
>     functionality though, gnome-photos and music currently lack a few vital
>     features. They're almost a bit too sparse. Hopefully, as they mature,
>     more features will be added and more people use them.
> 
>     A few things missing for gnome-music that I've noticed:
> 
>     No option to set library location.
>     No ability to edit meta data.
> 
>     Shotwell is pretty feature rich these days, so gnome-photos is not
>     really even the same sort of application. It's just for photo viewing
>     whereas Shotwell is for full on photo organisation and basic editing.
> 
>     Despite these issues, I think it would be good to take the leap to the
>     GNOME apps. It's got to happen at some point and will help to
>     distinguish Ubuntu GNOME from vanilla Ubuntu and generally make it a
>     kickass distro.
> 
> 
>     Does anyone use Polari, the IRC client?
> 
>     Leo
> 
> 
>     On 11/07/15 07:25, Tim wrote:
>     > 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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