Re: Update: 2.2 Proposed Modules List

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Joe Marcus Clarke">
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> > To be fair, there was some discussion with regard to gst.
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> Neither wildly positive or negative, though.
Ok, so now wildly positive hey?  Well I'll give a huge positive for this 
one.  I would really like to see Gnome with a good video/dvd viewer.  
While Totem is great (never liked xine till I found totem) if Gnome is 
going to go with gstreamer and if gstplayer will be stable and adhere to 
the other guidelines for inclusion in the desktop release I dont see why 
we would not include it.

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> > >  - galeon: Web browser. Depends on Mozilla.
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> > A lot of the FreeBSD users really want a web browser by default in
> > GNOME.  They see KDE has one, and wonder where GNOME's is.
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> My issue with Galeon is purely about maintainership. The GNOME 2 port rocks,
> but it needs hackers and maintainers to be viable. I'm not convinced that
> will work in the 2.2 timeframe.
A pitty to see Galeon go, I really hope some people step up to help out 
here.

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> > >  - gnome-media: Not a new module, but noted here because the latest branch
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> > >  - gstreamer/gst-plugins: Multimedia framework libraries.
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> > By lowering the thread[0]'s stack size, I got this working on FreeBSD,
> > so I drop my previous contention.  However, I'm not sure how other
> > platform's threading implementations will take to it.
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> Great!
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> > >  - acme: Daemon and configuration utility for 'special' keys on modern
> > >    multimedia keyboards and notebooks.
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> > Just out of curiosity, why?
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> See the discussion about it in the earlier proposed modules thread. More
> likely to be integrated into existing modules for 2.4.
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> - Jeff
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-Damien