Bug#241814: 241814: new totem.1 man page

Bastien Nocera Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>, 241814@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:06:07 +0100


Hey Andre,

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:21 -0700, Andre Lehovich wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > totem has both xine and gstreamer backends and gstreamer one will be
> > soon packaged (I'm waiting on gstreamer 0.8), so it would be nice to not
> > focus on xine.
> 
> I didn't know that.  Will both be packaged for Debian, or
> just one of the two?  Does upstream plan to support both for
> a while?  (I emailed Bastian last week, and he's interested
> in including a man page with future releases.)

It's already in the current release :)

> > I'm not sure that's usefull to include that in the manpages. gtk-options
> > manpage describes that for all the applications.
> 
> You're right.  I didn't know about gtk-options(7) but
> refering to it in SEE ALSO is better than relisting all the
> options.
> 
> > Same for these, I'm not sure it's usefull to include gtk/gnome/bonobo
> > options to each applications ... that makes pretty long manpages and
> > it's not such usefull.
> 
> Jochen Voss was working on a gnome-options(7) man page.  I
> just pinged him about that.  We should get that written and
> into one of the gnome packages, then cite it in SEE ALSO.

I'd just like to be sure that the man page upstream (ie. in the Totem
tarball) is updated, so don't forget me when you update it :)

Cheers

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