Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 12, 2023 13:29 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update by patrick_g
Parent article: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

> - We don't know what to do about our music application (Music) because in version 3.38 we "removed support for opening audio files".

You are confusing things here. Totem dropped audio support apparently, not Music.

> - Of course this list of glaring success encourage us for future app replacements : "Loupe is a new image viewer app developed by Chris and Sophie to replace Image Viewer (eog)

Among all this mess, Loupe is only one that seems decent.

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 12, 2023 13:43 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (2 responses)

The core app for music dropped support for audio files, is correct - the core app was totem/Videos - not Music:

"Previously, our default music player was Videos, which was really weird, and now we have none"

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 12, 2023 15:20 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

> The core app for music dropped support for audio files, is correct - the core app was totem/Videos - not Music:

Yes but the OP's wording is - We don't know what to do about our music application (Music) because in version 3.38 we "removed support for opening audio files".

This reads to me as Music dropping audio support in 3.38.

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 12, 2023 15:42 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Well, either way, the app that was fulfilling the function of playing any audio or "music" file a user clicked on had that function stripped, and the app that can play the Music/ collection can't play specific audio files.

Anyway, I'm a happy MATE user. Precisely cause of stuff like that post GNOME-2 (the UI changes in GNOME 2.0 had objective HCI studies behind them, thanks to Sun - GNOME 3 went in another direction).