Le jeudi 24 juin 2010 à 06:19 +0800, PCMan a écrit : > 1. Given you have proper codecs and audio libs installed for mplayer, > adding a music player won't bring many addiional dependencies since > they are already there. > 2. Usability matters. If you consider user interface, gnome-mplayer is > a nice video player but it's really a bad music player. It's even > difficult for the users to find that gnome-mplayer actually plays > music. > 3. Playing music and video are quite different things. The focus of > video player is smooth image processing, and the focus of music player > should be playlists management. It's quite often that you have more > than 100 songs in playlist, but normally you won't put 100 video files > in play queue and play them one by one. Music player and video player > are totally for different purpose. > 4. If someone still remember, winamp 5, the famous music player on > Windows in the past tried to support video playback, but do people use > it? It's still mostly used as music player. > > Unless your goal is something that can fit 100 mb cd, I think that > removing music player is not a valid approach to a desktop focusing on > usability.
Thanks, I have now some argument when someone else will propose this idea :) I also think the GUI of gnome-mplayer is not good enough to be a good replacement for an audio player. Regards, Julien Lavergne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
