[Mageia-dev] Problem with Totem packages?

Olav Vitters olav at vitters.nl
Wed Nov 21 14:39:31 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:32:32PM +0100, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
> Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012 13:29:26, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:11:40AM +0100, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
> > > If we want a full usable distro out the box, VLC must be the default
> > > choice for all videos and then Totem could be removed.
> > 
> > Which desktop are you using? VLC is IMO terrible, but I don't see why
> > application defaults should be the same across desktops. Totem under
> > anything other than GNOME: who cares? Maybe for XFCE VLC is a better fit
> > or something.
> 
> VLC works with any destop and any OS.
> Most of people coming from Windows already use VLC.
> LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC are the most universal applications.
> They allow easy migrations from Microsoft.
> However, I prefer Konqueror and kmail in a KDE environment.

You really like VLC :)

If there is no KDE mediaplayer, then maybe file a bug. Totem in KDE is
not the best match.

-- 
Regards,
Olav


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