Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-17 Thread sirgazil
On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:49:39 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote > Sirgazil, > > Raghav Gururajan reported the same problem on IRC. > > While youtube-dl is technically an optional dependency (‘some’ > videos work without it, maybe even most), the failure mode is so > bad

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Sirgazil, Raghav Gururajan reported the same problem on IRC. While youtube-dl is technically an optional dependency (‘some’ videos work without it, maybe even most), the failure mode is so bad (complete silence, not even a ‘please install...’ hint) that I've patched youtube-viewer to

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-16 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> > No, I mean that after having "youtube-viewer" installed, I had to install > "youtube-dl" manually because the former seems to depend on the latter. > Launching "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal would display a message about > "youtube-dl" not found or something like that. That's why I

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-15 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:49:59 -0500 sirgazil wrote > Hello, > > I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it > out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but > you can't watch them (you double-click on them and

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-15 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> No, I mean that after having "youtube-viewer" installed, I had to install > "youtube-dl" manually because the former seems to depend on the latter. > Launching "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal would display a message about > "youtube-dl" not found or something like that. That's why I

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-15 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:03:28 -0500 Raghav Gururajan wrote > > > I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try > > it out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, > > but you can't watch them (you double-click on them and

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-15 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it > out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but > you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had to > start "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal to check for

On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-15 Thread sirgazil
Hello, I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had to start "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal to check for