default applications for 15.10

[Alfredo Hernández]

Leo, you can't set the music library and never will (at least from GNOME
Music itself) because it's Tracker the daemon that takes care of everything.

I agree on Photos; it's still very basic, but that should end really soon
(see
https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/blob/master/photos/wires-editing.png
).

On 11 July 2015 at 09:43, Leo Francisco <lists at boywithwings.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > What does everyone think? Note this mainly only affects new installs,
> upgrades will keep the old apps also.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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