Jason Warner [2011-11-08 9:17 +1030]: > Areas of concern in Banshee were stability, start-up time, the overall > resource intensive nature of the application and how responsive an > upstream they were to Ubuntu specific needs.
That's actually not true -- we sent patches, and they were discussed and accepted. Certainly not within a day, but that's fairly normal in the OSS world, and RB (or GNOME) patches often take very long to review as well. The problem that was raised is that the package doesn't get well maintained in Ubuntu (but is maintained well upstream). It did get quite a lot of uploads in oneiric, though. I tried banshee when we introduced it and during oneiric again, and both times it was very unstable and rather slow, and did not get my collection imported without crashing. Henceforth I noticed that wiping my configuration improved the stability quite a bit, that might explain why it's working better for others. My main reasons why I like to switch back to TB are: * Spending ~ 30 MB of CD space for a music player seems rather excessive (if you count in the Mono stack) * There is no sign of GTK3 support yet, which keeps the old GTK2 and much more importantly webkit-gtk2 on the CD (which alone is 8 MB). * Our ARM team says that the current versions still work rather poorly on ARM. * We have shipped Rhythmbox in many previous releases, so while constantly switching back and forth is certainly bad, LTS->LTS upgraders will at least have consistency, and other upgraders won't lose Banshee either. * With the recent layoffs, Mono's future remains a bit fuzzy. I heard the developers founded a new company, so it's certainly not going away soon. I also personally prefer RB's UI, but I hardly have a technical argument for it. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop