VLC should be default media player on Xubuntu

[Joel Carlson]

Hi: Because of difficulties with Parole I install VLC when I install
Xubuntu and make VLC the default in Settings - Removable Drives and Media.
It probably is a matter of personal choice but I have had better luck with
VLC. Joel

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:20 AM Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>
wrote:

> Hello Joel,
>
> "Parole never works" is not very good argumenting. What in it does not
> work?
>
> VLC uses Qt as its toolkit so including it as the default player would
> bring in a lot of extra dependencies (literally, another toolkit), so it's
> out of question.
>
> Additionally, Parole works for all of my purposes very well, for example.
> Again, we would need good argumentation and facts on where Parole fails for
> a majority of our users to even consider a switch to begin with. That said,
> I'm happy that you've found an alternative that works for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
> On 19.7.2019 16.43, Joel Carlson wrote:
>
> Parole never works while VLC does so VLC should be the default IMHO.
>
>
> --
> Pasi Lallinaho (knome)         › https://open.knome.fi/
> Xubuntu Website Lead           › https://xubuntu.org/
> Xfce contributor               › https://xfce.org/
> Shimmer Project co-founder     › https://shimmerproject.org/
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/attachments/20190720/8929ee8a/attachment.html>