On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:51 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
- Though it is tempting, please avoid installing proprietary
software for which we already got an excellent, better or good-
enough free replacement
- e.g. for movies we got Totem, e.g. we don't need mplayer (if
Totem can't play a specific stream the user should file bugs)
- for document viewing we got Evince (if the user needs a11y make
the Evince authors fix it, don't install adobe reader)
- Ditto for Ekiga vs. Skype
OK, so I perfectly know mplayer is open source, sorry about that. I
guess I was trying to say that the solution should never pull in
software that changes the defaults on Fedora like installing a whole
new media player stack (mplayer vs. Totem) or a new communications
stack (Skype vs. Ekiga).
The solution should simple install plug-ins (e.g. codecs) that
extends our default applications. If you do anything more than this I
predict the solution to be less than successful. Isn't it great that
we have frameworks like e.g. gstreamer or Mozilla plug-ins that
actually alow this know?
Hope this clarifies. And good luck with this project - personally I'm
looking forward to having stuff like this for Fedora!
David
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