Re: KDE/jessie feedback
Hi Moritz
Thank you for your mail. I'll go thru your three topics.
> - With the default desktop there're notifications on new updates, but the
> standard tool (I'm not sure which it is precisely) only offers a
> notification, but no GUI-way to install the upgrades. I've tried apper and
> it seems to offer that, maybe that should be the standard tool?
Apper should be pulled in by the kde desktop task and thus available, but I'm
aiming to replace it with the kubuntu-originating tool 'muon'.
> - In the default install dragonplayer is installed (and it's a hard
> dependency from the meta packages). However, with dragonplayer many videos
> I tried only played the sound of the video, not the actual video. I need to
> debug that further, maybe there's a dependency missing. Overall mpv seems
> the superior choice to me (it's not a KDE component, of course, but it
> integrates very well and it has a clean design while still being very
> powerful).
We try hard to select packages based on what KDE provides, and dragonplayer is
the player provided here. Also, I think it is important that the media player
by default is honoring the settings in System Settings. Only applications
built upon phonon fully does that.
Do you have the vlc package installed? Phonon-backend-vlc does have a
recommends: vlc for helping with video playing capabilities, and Recommends
should be installed on all normal systems or else you get to keep the pieces.
Yes. mplayer does support a few extra weird video codecs that other don't, but
I haven't really seen such one in ages.
> - One issue we discussed during the security team meeting in Essen is VLC.
> Upstream focuses on people upgrading to new upstream releases and it's
> difficult to extract security fixes. Unfortunately VLC builds a library
> with Phonon being the major user, so upgrading to new upstream releases
> will break things. Since Phonon also supports Gstreamer as a backend (which
> is more stable API-wise and supportable), what do you think of switching
> Phonon over to Gstreamer?
can't you just rebuild phonon if you upload a newer VLC? I guess release team
don't like transitions in stable, but ...
If really needed, I guess we can 'lift over' the few bits from libvlccore that
phonon uses such that the phonon backend only uses libvlc. It is only for a
couple of functions that vlccore is used, as I remember it.
Phonon-vlc upstream is much more active that the phonon-gstreamer from my
impression, and phonon upstream does recommend phonon-vlc to be the default.
But fedora ships phonon-gstreamer as the default.
I do have a preference for not going against upstreams wishes here, so I would
prefer if we could find a solution where we follow upstream's wishes.
/Sune
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