On 9/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jani Monoses</b> <<a href="mailto:jani@ubuntu.com">jani@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I have been thinking lately of switching over to Totem for the following<br>reasons besides the generic ones that were mentioned in the GNOME apps<br>thread.<br><br>- it is friendlier than gxine<br>- we get another package co-maintained with Ubuntu lessening our bug triage
<br>- its dependencies are in already (although that was not a maneuver to<br>get here!)<br>- according to the threads here and the forum poll, gxine seems to be<br>one of the top apps that are being switched out from a default install.
<br>The alternative is usually vlc or mplayer but we cannot include those<br>- has a nicer firefox plugin<br><br>Totem can use either gstreamer or libxine as a backend, here are the<br>pros and cons I know<br><br>totem-gstreamer
<br> - gstreamer is the one used in Ubuntu so the maintenance argument applies<br> - gstreamer has integrated the codec wizard that downloads missing<br>codecs when a certain media being played needs them<br>- pidgin in xubuntu already depends on libgstreamer
<br><br>totem-xine<br>- we keep the same functionality as with gxine only with a nicer GUI<br>- has better DVD support than gstreamer<br><br><br>well thought out and constructive comments welcome, regardless of their<br>being for or against this change :)
<br><br>thanks<br>Jani<br><br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I'm sorry, but trading one useless app for another useless one sounds pointless to me. How many people honestly use Totem for their regular video watching? I don't know anyone that uses it. Everyone inevitably installs VLC and/or MPlayer, especially if they're using Xfce. Obviously those can't be included by default, but why switch gxine out for Totem? I fail to see how Totem is better to use. It's hardly any more user-friendly than gxine. "It's already in Ubuntu" seems to be the only reasoning behind this...
<br><br>Just my $0.02.<br><br>Ghostvirus<br>