Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Banshee

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 01/28/2011 05:47 PM, Manel de la Rosa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've not found another email adress where put this, so forgive me.
>
> I only wanted to say that I find extremely unfair dumpin out Rhythmbox
> from Ubunt and replacing it for a big-bloated slow mono app like
> banshee, with no remarcable features over Rhythmbox.
>
> Please, keep the great work!!!!
>
> Ubuntu 11.XX = sudo apt-get remove banshee&&  apt-get install rhythmbox
>
>
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While Ubuntu may be the most popular Linux distribution on it's own, I'm 
pretty sure that the users of Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, PCLinuxOS, 
Arch Linux (me!), and so on have much, much more than the users that 
Ubuntu alone has. I haven't used Ubuntu in almost a year (and for good 
reasons but that's besides the point), and I'm pretty sure that there 
are people "jumping ship" all the time from changes like this.

Whether or not Rhythmbox is the default application in Ubuntu, this 
seems pretty fine to me. The people that still use Rhythmbox will most 
likely switch back (and why wouldn't they? Rhythmbox is awesome!) and 
the people that try out Banshee because it's the default application 
might not like it and switch over to Rhythmbox (no offense to the 
Banshee developers; I mean that there's always that possibility with 
every music application).

    - Ryan Peters, a reader of this mailing list and unfortunately not 
a developer

PS: If Ubuntu bugs you any more with its awkward changes, you could 
always test out another distribution to see if it works out better for 
you, like Fedora or Linux Mint Debian Edition (or if you're adventurous, 
Arch Linux is very nice if you can get it working) ;)