Patrick O'Callaghan-2 wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:47 +0930, Tim wrote: >> > For instance there's little reason not to use VideoLan (VLC) as the >> > standard media player in Linux.... > > Does anyone in the Real World actually think of themselves as using a > "media player"? Perhaps they consider playing video and playing music to > be two different things. Now there's a thought ... > >> I find it even slower to get started than any of the alternatives, and >> a >> bit CPU heavy. So that's quite a nuisance when you're file managing >> (e.g. double click on something in a list of other things, to work out >> what's what, and there's an awful lot of waiting involved). RhythmBox >> is also quite heavy, with all that baggage of being a library of all >> your files, which is quite painful when my music collection is on the >> file server, accessed via NFS. And Totem is a behemoth that doesn't >> let >> you do much (few codecs included, few remote ones ever found, etc.). > > I use Amarok for music (and have a fairly serious dislike of its new > look, but that's beside the point). For "click-to-play" video I use > Dragon, which is simple, effective and above all fast. I reserve VLC for > the harder cases. > > poc > > How does this link to the topic on email clients? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-ideal-mail-client--tp24762653p24778837.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
