Bug#430024: closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (Re: Bug#430024: Gnome should not depend on totem-mozilla)

[Amir Tabatabaei]

Hi,

> > From: Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
> > To: Nima <nimakha at gmail.com>, 430024-done at bugs.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Bug#430024: Gnome should not depend on totem-mozilla
> > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:38:35 +0100
> > Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le mardi 10 juillet 2007 à 21:30 -0400, Nima a écrit :
> > > I don't think totem-mozilla is high-quality enough to be included with
> > > gnome.  It's unstable, unpolished, and slow, and I would strongly
> > > prefer to just watch videos with an external player.  Having gnome
> > > depend on it also prevents people from choosing mozilla-mplayer, but I
> > > don't think it needs to depend on either of them.
> > 
> > This was true at that moment, but in version 2.20, totem-mozilla
> > received much attention and is much more polished and stable.

You are right, totem-mozilla is of much better quality in 2.20. Great
work from upstream and Debian maintainers!

But this bug report was not about totem-mozilla as such (therefore
report is against gnome and not totem-mozilla) but more about the fact
that some people don't want to get videos opened inside the browser but
rather a windows asking for either playback or save. Always
right-clicking is not the right solution if you would like to switch off
this behaviour completely. And you can't remove this package as the
gnome metapackage depends on it instead of only recommend it.

Loic suggested to wait until the package managers can handle suggestions
correctly which was the right solution. 

SO therefore I would like to ask you to reconsider this and reopen the
report.

Thanks and regards,
Amir