On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:44:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> * audio production: sound synthesis, audio editing, sequencing. >> * multimedia playing: vlc ;) >> * video production: ... I don't do this. >> * home multimedia center: xmbc/mediatomb style software. >> >> Or should we have a finer grained split? > > I imagine something like this: > > * multimedia-gtk (enhancing e.g. gnome) > * multimedia-qt (enhances e.g. kde) > * multimedia-light (enhances e.g. lxde and xfce) > * multimedia-tiny (enhances e.g. libphone-ui-shr)
I cannot make qualified comments on these, but I somehow feel that only eduacted users care about their widget library and/or desktop environment. For everyone else, the distinction between GTK and QT and even light and tiny is hardly obvious. But let's talk about the main point I want to cover: > * multimedia-pro-audio > * multimedia-pro-video > * multimedia (recommending all of above) While I could perfectly live with the first two, the latter is probably not the best choice: users could tend to read "Multimedia? Cool, give me all." and end up with tons of software that's completely inappropriate for them. They'll be facing a question about jackd realtime priorities and probably more pro stuff. OTOH, producers might not want each and every single GTK+QT+whatever movie player, desktop tool and the lot when installing a video editing machine or digital audio workstation. Long story short: don't make a catch-all choice across consumer and producer variants. Just my €0.02 -- mail: a...@thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
