On 4/12/05, Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > is there any reason why Totem is not the default media player in FC4 ? > The test releases still have Helix Player, while Totem is now the > default GNOME player, and currently it plays more formats. (Helix > Player was added quite late to FC3 and without any warning or discussion > - I probably should have brought it up sooner :)) 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. -jef
