VLC should be default media player on Xubuntu

[Yousuf Philips]

Hi Joel,

You'll have to give more details of what difficulties you are facing with
Parole for the team to better understand the issue.

I personally install VLC and SMPlayer, as i prefer their customizability,
especially as I like having the same experience in multiple different
distros that I run and can easily copy their settings from .config. Ubuntu
Mate had a poll in 2017 for what should be their default media player, and
their users chose VLC, but they have decide in 19.10 to move to Gnome MPV
for better desktop integration.

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 7:52 PM Joel Carlson <fox7799 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
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