VLC should be default media player on Xubuntu

[Yousuf Philips]

Hi Amit,

You must have misunderstood my email as I was simply mentioning to Pasi
what I do and wasnt recommending that Xubuntu do the same, as I mentioned
that the Ubuntu Mate team decided against using VLC.

Regards,
Yousuf

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:01 PM Amit Bidkar <amit.bidkar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> @Yusuf: If you installed, Why you are forcing all people to install it
> without solid reasons. I am not multimedia user but Developer and I am
> getting from Xubuntu what I want apart from some screen tearing tweaks.
>
> @Pasi: Please do not increase unnecessary dependencies.  I installed and
> *LOVE* Xubuntu because it's lightweight and most *STABLE* distro.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Amit Bidkar
>
>
> On 21/07/19 12:14 AM, Yousuf Philips wrote:
>
> 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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