[Bug 334954] Re: Don't register as default video player

[hyperair]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:04 +0000, Ken VanDine wrote:
> It wouldn't remove support for it completely, just remove it as a
> default action (or list of defaults) when opening/downloading a video
> file.
Yeah that's what I meant. Sorry for phrasing it wrongly.
> 
> I just don't think banshee provides the expected user experience when
> used to open a video.  It is fine if you are playing videos you are
> managing in  your library.  But when you click on a video to play,
> banshee doesn't actually take you right into video playback.   You
> actually have to navigate to your playing video.  That should really
> be
> fixed in banshee,  right now banshee always does the same thing no
> matter what media type you opened.  Perhaps it should detect it is a
> video and change your view to the "Now Playing" view.  I will file an
> upstream bug for that, but until the user experience is improved I
> would
> rather steer the user towards totem.
> 
I agree that Banshee provides a less than ideal user experience for
videos. However, I don't think this is enough to warrant removing
Banshee from the list of applications available to play videos. 

The current behaviour (assuming that defaults.list has Totem listed as
default for all videos) is that Banshee just appears in the list of
"Open with" applications, but does not become the default, unless the
user chooses it to be. 

I can't think of any way this would inconvenience any users at all. If a
user wants to use Banshee as his/her default, he/she just selects it as
the default in the properties dialog in Nautilus. If he/she does not
want to use Banshee as his/her default, he just leaves it be, and that's
it. 

On the other hand, this change you are proposing will inconvenience
users who DO want to use Banshee as their default, because now they will
have to manually add the application to the list.

You mention that you would rather steer the user towards totem. Don't
you think that having Totem as the default application for videos is
enough rather than removing Banshee from the list of "Open with"
applications as well? Moreover, Banshee is an application in universe
which is not even installed by default! If the user has installed
Banshee, then the user WANTS Banshee. And even then, Totem will remain
the default video application.

That said, I am completely and utterly against this change. If you feel
you must go on with this change, at least discuss it with upstream and
the Debian maintainer first.
-- 
Chow Loong Jin

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Don't register as default video player
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