Frank:
I was wondering why the default audio player in Gnome is Totem movie player. If I open an audio file it looks like this: http://frank.niedermann.name/stuff/totem-audio.png This window looks a bit clumsy because the video section (left) is not usefull at this moment and the playlist size is too small. I think it would be better to just display needfull things while playing audio files like Rhythmbox Music player does with View/Small Display: http://frank.niedermann.name/stuff/rhythmbox.png Here all important commands and informations for playing audio files are available and not much space is wasted. If Rhythmbox may be too complex as default audio player in Gnome what about a compromise like Eina: http://bolgo.cent.uji.es/proyectos/eina#shots
At Sun, the only free media player we ship is totem. I think any media play that uses GStreamer is an exciting product. My understanding is that the plugin support for GStreamer 0.10 will really start to provide an end-user experience that is competitive. Clicking on Fluendo's "Products" button [1] shows that some exciting legal-to-use and popular plugins are available. I think this is great progress to getting reasonable [2] media support on UNIX. That said, lots of people on Solaris think totem sucks since it only supports au, WAV and ogg-vorbis. Support is already much better in OpenSolaris with theora, speex, flac, and monkeybrainz support. And if end-users can buy plugins to support more rich formats, I think media software on UNIX will be much more popular. I'm not sure if Rhythmbox is a better program, but perhaps we should switch to using it in OpenSolaris, or ship both. I'd be interested to hear a recommendation. Brian [1] http://www.fluendo.com/ [2] or at least not so abhorrent _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
