Re: Proposed: Rhythmbox

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

>That is precisely the reason why Totem may be more appropriate for
>inclusion in the basic Desktop release - providing sound, music and video
>playing - where Rhythmbox has a more specific task, and may be more
>appropriate for a separate multimedia release.

The problem is that times have changed though. People _expect_ a music
player/radio/management application with their default desktop. We are not
in 1994 anymore where 10 mod files and 20 midi files were making out our
full music collection. ;-)

I think the core of the disagreement here is that you see a seperate gnome
release for specialized apps (please correct me if I am wrong, but that's
what I seem to understand). I don't believe that it should be a "multimedia
release" with gnome multimedia apps in it. This is too much fragmentation
for something that shouldn't be painful for some users ("oh, my distro only
offers RPMs for the previous multmedia release, but it has a newer gnome and
gstreamer so this won't work anymore" etc etc). Having a main release
("Gnome"), a Gnome Office release, a bindings release and a "test" release
(with all non-included apps, but still part of the gnome cvs and stuff), I
think it is enough. We don't need a "gnome multimedia release", or a "gnome
graphics release" or a seperate "gnome games" release. Further fragmentation
into more releases can have worse results than originally thought for
reasons that I won't outline here.

Rgds,
Eugenia