default applications for 15.10

[Leo Francisco]

 Yeh, once that simple editing stuff is in photos, I think it'd do the
job. I know new users who enjoy using those features in Shotwell.

Didn't know that about Music.

I don't think it would be a problem switching the apps. If people do
need more features, they can just install more programs. That's part of
the fun of free software. The people who just leave the default apps on
tend to be new users and would get on fine with Music and Photos as they
have simple attractive interfaces.



On 11/07/15 13:54, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
> 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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