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[David Sugar <david.sugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did not think there was a significant usability issue in gnome-player
either.  I only had a minor change requested for the seed currently,
related to a different issue, but I wanted to get feedback on whether
this should be changed as well...

Julien Lavergne wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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