On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:17:18PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
On 17/08/10 17:54, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:* multimedia (depends on multimedia-gtk | multimedia-playback) * multimedia-gnome (provides multimedia-playback; depends on Qt/Phonon-based and KDE apps) * multimedia-gtk (provides multimedia-playback; depends on GTK/GStreamer and GNOME apps) * multimedia-light (provides multimedia-playback; depends on apps _not_ linked against desktop-homogenizing libraries) * multimedia-tiny (provides multimedia-playback; depends on apps targeted embedded devices)I believe that each DE will have installed it's own media player. Is there really a need for multimedia-{gnome,kde,gtk} tasks?
ok.I was imagining that there was more to it than a "media player", but thinking more about it I cannot come up with a sensible split: Those (like me) favoring MPD will cherry-pick based on that. No point in trying to group media players - they are either catch-all integrated with a desktop or aiming at something specific which you then have a specific interest in.
* multimedia-pro-studio (depends on "classic" GUI style production tools like Ardour, JACK and Hydrogen) * multimedia-pro-live (depends on production tools designed for live mixing of audio and video) * multimedia-pro-devel (depends on scripting and programming tools like PureData and CSound)While I know that the tasks are not meant to be disjoint sets, I think that this split has too much overlap. In particular, both csound and puredata can be (and are frequently) used for live coding, and I suspect all sound programming languages can be too. So multimedia-pro-devel would be contained within multimedia-pro-live. Or maybe it is something else you are splitting on and I'm just confused by the names?
Do any of us developers actually use e.g. VJ'ing tools?I have the impression that those performing favor different tools than those e.g. composing electronica. And that both camps typically use not a single tool by a range of them together. I might be totally wrong.
I am well aware that each user has a personal favorite setup. We cannot serve all. Skolelinux also do not serve all needs schools _can_ have, but offer an easy way to install a sensible system (which happen to be KDE-based, which I personally dislike).
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