Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Mon, 22.02.10 12:08, Sergey Udaltsov (sergey udaltsov gmail com) wrote:

> >  From reading description, it seems to me that Rygel would be better
> > suited as system service. Just like for example mt-daapd (which seem
> > to have the same purpose as Rygel but for DAAP). How does it fit GNOME?
> Absolutely correct point! Folks, when did you decided that GNOME is
> for PCs only ("personal computers", in the worst of all possible
> interpretations - computer for one single user)? That is ok for
> tablets, smartphones etc - but not for general purpose desktop.
> 
> If some computer provides media collection through UPnP/DAAP, it
> should do it as a system-level service, just like mt-daapd (even
> though it can be flexible enough to accomodate per-user dirs, just
> like apache or smb).

Well, we already run apache as part of the user session from
gnome-user-share.

GNOME is certainly focussed on the desktop, or similar user
interfaces. As such it should provide services for building user
interfaces, not server machines.

Lennart

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