Re: [Cooker] rpmsrate discussion [2]: default Gnome desktop

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 19:28 +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:

> My proposal for point 1 and 2: install F-Spot and Gthumb by default, do not 
> install eog, flphoto and gtkam by default anymore. (PS: I verified after I 
> have written these two points: this is also what Ubuntu is doing by default).

+1.

> 3. Web browsers: We have Epiphany and Firefox in the default install. I think 
> Mandriva is besides Debian the only big distro installing these two by 
> default. These two browsers use the same engine, and Epiphany does not have 
> unique features which do not exist in Firefox. Furthermore Firefox is much 
> more known. So personally I do not see any reason to install both, it just 
> clutters the Web Browser menus. (Even when installing both, is it really 
> necessary to create a seperate menu item for Epiphany's bookmark manager? I 
> have never seen somebody starting his bookmark manager to start browsing the 
> web...)

slightly reluctant +1 again, but I guess Fred would be against this as
he likes to have a completely standard range of GNOME packages installed
when the GNOME group is selected. Epiphany is part of GNOME, Firefox is
not.

> 4. CD Player applications: We currently have three applications which permit 
> you to listen to music CDs: gnome-cd, rhythmbox and sound-juicer. Is 
> gnome-cd-player really still necessary? Rhtymbox could be launched 
> automatically for audio CDs. At least Ubuntu does not install gnome-cd by 
> default anymore, just rhythmbox and sound-juicer.
> This would mean we would have to split gnome-media package: not a bad idea 
> IMHO: it would also permit us to not install vumeter anymore, as that 
> application seems also rather useless. 

I don't think it's worth losing any sleep over. A small CD player app is
quite nice sometimes actually, for instance when RB breaks...which it
used to do quite often...and Ross is fairly adamant that s-j is not a CD
player.

> 6. We're installing blogtk by default now. This application has not been 
> updated for two years, and I think it's target public is too limited to 
> install it by default. This is only useful to people having a supported blog, 
> and even then I don't think a lot of people really bother using a seperate 
> program instead of just using the web based administration panel of their 
> blog.

...and besides, there's the rather more heavily maintained gnome-blog
available.

> 7. cdrdao-gcdmaster: It is a burning application for audio CDs. It seems an 
> application with an extensive feature set for rather specialized work. Would 
> not a more simple application like brasero or serpentine be more appropriate?

Or graveman.
-- 
adamw