On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 23:04 +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Hi, GNOMEies, > > I'm currently away from my Debian box and will continue to be so for some > more weeks. Therefore I would like to ask if someone from the GNOME team has > the time to step in and get rid of the stupid debconf question I built into > nautilus-media's postinst in time for the tentative Sarge release. > > The debconf question is about which thumbnailer should be used for video > files - the one that ships with nautilus-media or totem's. Xine-based totem > is clearly superiour so it should be preferred if present. But it cannot be > expected to be installed as it is not - yet - part of the core desktop. > > However, the new debian user should not be bothered with such marginal > issues and debconf should ask as few questions as possible, as also has been > suggested by Michael Bank in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Now, my idea is to change the postinst and postrm in the following way: > nautilus-media's postinst should check for the presence of totem. If it is > absent, it should register gst-thumbnailer.schemas with gconf. If totem is > present, schemas registration should be skipped to ensure that totem's > settings are preserved. > > At the same time totem should unconditionally register its thumbnailer with > debconf to make sure that it is always used as preferred video thumbnailer. > However, if it is uninstalled, postrm should check for the presence of > nautilus-media and (re-)register its schemas file, to make sure that a video > thumbnailer is still available. > > nautilus should do the same in postrm, only vice-versa. > > If anyone is not away from their Debian boxen and is ready to step in > (should not be more than 30 minutes work), that would be sooo nice! > debian/config and debian/templates can be removed from the package, as well > as debian/po/* > > Thanks, > > Johannes
Hi Johannes, I've talked it over with Sebastien Bacher and Josselin Mouette about this inadequacy regarding the package and we've come to an agreement to use the update-alternatives facility. I have now patched nautilus-media and totem to use update-alternatives whenever possible. The following is a list of changes these patches make: * Both the totem and nautilus-media schema files now use /usr/bin/gnome- video-thumbnailer as the command to use when creating thumbnails. * Totem has greater priority to nautilus-media when both are installed on the machine automatically and as such the /usr/bin/gnome-video- thumbnailer is symlinked to /usr/bin/totem-video-thumbnailer. * Update-alternatives functionality has been implemented in debian/postinst and debian/prerm with patches diffed against the schema files available in debian/pacthes. I have sent the patches for totem to Sebastien about 2 days ago and the ones for nautilus-media have already been applied. I'm just awaiting some feedback on those patches. I would be more than happy to send them to you. -- Emil Soleyman-Zomalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
