On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:44 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > Rhythmbox is not the default GNOME mediaplayer, GNOME only ships > Totem. > My mistake. > Till such a time as Fedora deems Mono non-free, the fact that Mono and > banshee is present means it lives up to the strict guidelines for > freedom Fedora requires and should be able to be considered on equal > footing. If we are second class citizens without any chance of ever > being included please tell us officially, I am sure I and the other > people working tirelessly to improve Mono would love to know if we are > wasting our time, if that is the case it might save everyone a lot of > headaches and wasted manhours of contributions that could be invested > in non-Fedora venue which is interested in this work. > I think it has/should have equal footing to say C++ or python stuff (that said, I prefer to have plain C applications as much as possible, partly because every other language needs an additional layer of bindings if it uses GTK+), but the design and the background being how it is makes it somehow less favourable choice for being installed by default (I recall when people [users] complained back in the time when mono was shipped first in Fedora about it actually being there, but times change...). But I certainly wouldn't hold it back *just* because of this. > Also from what I read, it also joins the functionality of > video and > audio players... Well, while there is some non-zero > intersection of > those, I don't quite like having it both managed by one app. > That's not > how gnome apps usually do it. > > I have to admit I kinda like it, I was skeptical at first. Where it > really starts to shine is for video podcasts, automatically downloaded > (and with a bit of dbus magic even torrent payloads can be downloaded > which is really powerful not to mention shiny). There is an increasing > intersection of differing kinds of media in peoples collections, > vodcasts, music videos, tv shows, movies, e.g. I believe it's valuable > to interact with them through the same library and application. > Well, it's valuable to interact with them through the same library, but I still prefer having say three tightly connected small applications optimized for the very task they ought to do rather than having a big one doing all that by itself... > - David Nielsen > Martin
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