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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 à 14:15 +0800, Andrew Lee a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> SMplayer
> --------
> As far as I remember from the application selections IRC meeting with
> other LXDE core developers, the SMplayer has been chosen because of the
> LXDE design principles:
>     "Usability is always the top one concern."
> 
> Details: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE_Design_Principles
Well I don't think there is such bad usability issue with gnome-player.
I can also see that this choice is against some principle :
- Only use libraries from other desktops when they are small or
efficient enough and have few dependencies. (in this case QT)
- Keep the user interface simple and intuitive. Never design some
geek-style GUI. (the GUI of gnome-mplayer is much cleaner than the
SMplayer one IMO).

Well, I can live with this, but I'm sure there will be some
interrogations like "Why I need to install QT ?". In fact, there is
already questions like this on French forums :)

> Mplayer
> -------
> I only know the mplayer is in Debian main which means it would ship with
> Debian ISO images. Honestly, I have no iea on the status of mplayer
> package in ubuntu.
To compare to Debian, the Ubuntu package of Mplayer will be in contrib.
I think it's mostly a problem with LAME, but I didn't dig to much about
this issue. I didn't realize that Mplayer is in main for Debian :) 

Regards,
Julien Lavergne