----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > > Hope you had a good holiday season. > > I propose again some changes to the default apps for F24: > > * Empathy - remove without replacement. I use it myself, but I think > I'm a minority -- we don't need to have a chat app installed by default > anymore, since not many people are using the chat protocols supported > by Empathy nowadays. A prominent exception is IRC, but that's only > popular for Fedora/FLOSS developers, not for software developers in > general. Empathy's UI is also looking quite dated. As part of this, we > would remove chat integration from the Online Accounts panel in system > settings. (This is easy; I've already done it for an unrelated > project.) If you want Empathy you can still install it. > > * Shotwell -> GNOME Photos. Photos works well for me, and Shotwell is > unmaintained upstream for almost a year now. I'm going to package a git > snapshot for us to get in some security fixes, since I don't expect an > upstream release anytime soon. If you want Shotwell for more advanced > features, you can still install it. > > * Rhythmbox -> GNOME Music. I'm using it every day. It works great and > doesn't look like a database frontend. If you want Rhythmbox you can > still install it. There are a couple rough edges left, but it's much > nicer than Rhythmbox overall. One blocker, though: this would need to > be conditional on getting GNOME#747953 (information leak via plain text > HTTP connection) fixed first. Mostly in agreement with this and the rest of the thread, except that I would keep Shotwell the default if Debarshi doesn't see GNOME Photos as being ready. Churning from Shotwell to gthumb then to gnome-photos in a release or two hardly makes the right statement to users outside of this list. Cheers -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
