On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 02:06 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 05.08.2005, 04:17 +0200 schrieb edoardo:
> > recently i made a nautilus script that allows you to convert audio files
> > by right-clickin' on'em from nautilus.
> >
> > i was wonderin' if you guys might have wanted to include it in the next
> > official gnome release.
>
> Though the script is probably useful for many people I believe that in
> GNOME we have a general consensus that technical details should not be
> exposed to the user, whenever possible. That also includes file formats
> such as OGG, FLAC or mp3. If a requirement to convert a format does come
> up (e.g. through hardware player constraints) the applications that
> interface with this hardware should be fixed to automatically convert
> the format accordingly, so that the user is not confronted with the
> format at all.
> Thus, I believe your script is a great enhancement, but it should not be
> included in the GNOME default release for the above reasons.
>
> -Samuel
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I think a nautilus extension that gives a "Convert To" context menu item
to an image or audio file(s) would be pretty cool, myself. This script
doesn't do that (by virtue of it being a script), but that doesn't mean
format conversion w/i Nautilus is a bad idea.
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