Re: Why was Totem removed?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Joseph Phillips">

> Why was Totem remved from the Desktop release?

Because we were only going to ship it if it were stable and useful with the
GStreamer backend, but it wasn't, so at the author's request (because he
doesn't want to see a bad version released when it is such a great app
otherwise) we removed it from the release. That doesn't mean it's not good.

> What do you mean by consistency?

Totem isn't in the Desktop release. The meta/gnome-desktop is meant to build
the Desktop release. Therefore it doesn't belong.

> What's the difference between Xine and GStreamer?

GStreamer is a generic, pipeline-based multimedia framework. Xine is a media
player library. Thus far, Xine works more reliably for more media types,
particularly video.

- Jeff

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