> I'd have to agree that there needs to be serious evaluation of totem > again as the default player for fc4. I'm not aware of a technical > advantage that Helix has out-of-the-box. And unless Helix has grown > some interesting new plugin support... its immensely easier to just > replace Helix with Real when you go looking for additional codec > support. From a user perspective I don't see a compelling reason to > use Helix over Real in any real-world situation. Totem on the other > hand when backed by gst has a reasonable useful mechanism to extend > its support via additional gst plugins instead of being replaced > wholesale with another player application. And the gst dependancy > makes for tighter integration with the default desktop. I'm reading > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/desktop/defaults.html > and I personally don't see a profound reason to keep Helix as the > default when compared to totem based on the objective criteria > setforth there. > > If there are differing opinions grounded in technical criteria for > helix still being the default, I'd appreciate hearing them for > perspective. Instead of discussing it here maybe we should take it to -desktop-list where it can maybe get a bit more sane and less flamable responses. -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
