Re: Proposed: Rhythmbox

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 05Jan2004 04:26PM (-0500), Bryan W Clark wrote:
> 
> Havoc is correct, and from an desktop interaction point of view
> rhythmbox is not yet a key part of the desktop system of tools. 
> Rhythmbox needs to bring added back-end integration before it can play
> that key role in the integration of GNOME.  I use RB as my music player
> and really like it, however until it provides an integration layer
> between itself and other programs I don't see the advantage of putting
> it into the GNOME release.  

[... snip ...]

> Convincing distros to include apps by including them in GNOME is not the
> solution.  Talk to your distro maintainer, if that doesn't work switch
> distros.  Distributions will do what they want with the pieces of GNOME,
> but the integrated parts must be included to make our DE work. 

Don't these arguments apply equally to, say, gEdit or gnome-terminal?
Or Epiphany?  Would you propose removing them from the release? They
don't really need to be "integrated" in the sense that nautilus, the
panel and control-center do.

But I think removing would be silly, because a simple text editor, a
terminal emulator and a web browser are among the basic apps that form
the foundation of the desktop experience.

I happen to think that a music player/organizer is now in the same
category of bare essential system apps. One might reasonably disagree
that it is in this category. But it seems disingenous to me to claim
the category is not even relevant. What ever happened to "greatest
common factor"?

Regards,
Maciej