Re: Removing GNOME Videos?

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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On 2/20/19 8:22 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> totem in distribution
> ---------------------
> 
> 1. Try to play videos and have an error thrown saying they can't be played
> 2. Click on "search" for "additional codecs"
> 3. Find nothing in GNOME Software, close it
> 4. Launch browser, search for fedora + "error message"
> 5. Find Fedora Magazine, a blog post, or a forum, linking to RPMFusion
> 6. Click on link to RPMFusion
> 7. Click on "Enable RPM Fusion on your system"
> 8. Click on "RPM Fusion free for Fedora XX"
> 9. Click install
> 10. Click on "RPM Fusion nonfree for Fedora XX"
> 11. Click install
> 12. Try to play videos and have an error thrown saying they can't be played
> 13. Click on "search" for "additional codecs"
> 14. Click on first result, click install, click back
> 15. Repeat 14. for every item in the list (missing audio/video codecs might
> be
> in different packages)
> 16. Close GNOME Software
> 17. Click play, realise that it won't play
> 18. Close video player
> 19. Try to play videos again, it works
> 
> Or, something like this maybe?
> 1. Try to play videos and have an error thrown saying they can't be played
> 2. Google Fedora media player
> 3. Get to either Totem/VLC flathub pages with all the codecs
> 4. Click on install button
> 5. Profit

That's a possibility, yes.

> I don't see the benefit of removing Totem from Fedora, it is just going to
> hurt users who play files encoded in some open format. It is not going to
> help anybody else.

Making sure the 17- or 19-step flow can't happen is a pretty big one.

In any case, one of two things needs to happen:
- either we keep totem in, and somebody needs to fix PackageKit-gstreamer
  to actually follow the interface it needs to have
- or we remove totem, and we need to figure out what to do with that
  "search for movie players" link into GNOME Software
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