Re: Why was Totem removed?

[Joseph Phillips <jphillips amphus com>]

Why was Totem remved from the Desktop release?  What do you mean by
consistency?

What's the difference between Xine and GStreamer?


On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 21:44, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jens Bech Madsen">
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 18:10, Joseph Phillips wrote:
> > > I had Totem in an earlier 2.3 snapshot, but now it's removed in the latest
> > > 2.4rc1.
> > > 
> > > Why is that?
> > 
> > Totem isn't part of the Desktop modules for 2.4. It was considered at
> > some point but was dropped. I think the reason was the the gstreamer
> > backend wasn't good enough yet, and using the zine backend wasn't a
> > viable option because it would add a big dependency to the desktop. Or
> > something like that. Jeff?
> 
> Just consistency really. Totem is no longer in the Desktop release, so I
> took it out of the Desktop meta garball.
> 
> > The totem garball is still in the gnome directory. If you want it
> > installed, just cd to the directory and make install there.
> 
> Yep! And it's now defaulting to Xine instead of GStreamer. :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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