default applications for 15.10

[Leo Francisco]

That sounds like a really good idea. We would be loosing some
functionality though, gnome-photos and music currently lack a few vital
features. They're almost a bit too sparse. Hopefully, as they mature,
more features will be added and more people use them. 

A few things missing for gnome-music that I've noticed:

No option to set library location.
No ability to edit meta data.

Shotwell is pretty feature rich these days, so gnome-photos is not
really even the same sort of application. It's just for photo viewing
whereas Shotwell is for full on photo organisation and basic editing.

Despite these issues, I think it would be good to take the leap to the
GNOME apps. It's got to happen at some point and will help to
distinguish Ubuntu GNOME from vanilla Ubuntu and generally make it a
kickass distro.


Does anyone use Polari, the IRC client?

Leo


On 11/07/15 07:25, Tim wrote:
> Hey All,
>    We have been saying for a while we would switch the default media apps to the new GNOME ones once they mature, rather than inheriting the
> Ubuntu defaults. These apps have now had a few cycles to brew up and are a much better fit for the GNOME DE.
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> The main changes would be:
>  - shotwell replaced by gnome-photos
>  - rhythmbox replaced by gnome-music
> -  Possibly add the getting started guide (but english only, its too big to fit on images otherwise)
> - Infrastructure for gnome-software is not ready in debian/Ubuntu so that will come later likely in one of the 16.x releases
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> What does everyone think? Note this mainly only affects new installs, upgrades will keep the old apps also.
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