Hey,
I just wanted to play a DVD in Fedora 8 and found that it (by default) starts totem when you insert a dvd movie but i don't want totem for my dvd! i want mplayer for it (installed and working) but i can't find anything to set mplayer to the default for playing DVD movies.
i tried gnome-default-applications-properties but that doesn't have a dvd option. So where can i change the behavior that totem starts my dvd movies?
This really should be placed in a future gnome-default-applications-properties! (gonna fill as feature request on the bugzilla of redhat).
Mark.
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Mark wrote: | Hey, | | I just wanted to play a DVD in Fedora 8 and found that it (by default) | starts totem when you insert a dvd movie but i don't want totem for my | dvd! i want mplayer for it (installed and working) but i can't find | anything to set mplayer to the default for playing DVD movies. | | i tried gnome-default-applications-properties but that doesn't have a | dvd option. | So where can i change the behavior that totem starts my dvd movies? | | This really should be placed in a future gnome-default-applications-properties! | (gonna fill as feature request on the bugzilla of redhat).
Does
System > Preferences > Preferred Applications > MultiMedia > 'pick one'
help?
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~ David
Oke i found it. it's hidden in a strange location. It's located in:
System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Removable devices and media than in the Multimedia tab.
Now that name is by far suggestion that "preferred applications" can be set in there. Would be best if this gets merged with the other Preferred Applications if you ask me.
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Mark wrote: | Oke i found it. it's hidden in a strange location. | It's located in: | | System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Removable devices and media | than in the Multimedia tab. | | Now that name is by far suggestion that "preferred applications" can | be set in there. | Would be best if this gets merged with the other Preferred | Applications if you ask me.
Then you should tell/ask someone that can change it instead of this list. Bugzilla it.
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~ David
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:06 +0100, Mark wrote:
Oke i found it. it's hidden in a strange location. It's located in:
System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Removable devices and media than in the Multimedia tab.
Now that name is by far suggestion that "preferred applications" can be set in there. Would be best if this gets merged with the other Preferred Applications if you ask me.
Misunderstanding on your behalf...
The removable media preferences come into action when dealing with removable media. DVDs are removable media. You plug it in, there's an action for that.
Default application preferences are for when you ask the system to do open something. If you were to do some mouse clicking on a DVD, then here would be an appropriate place to set the default application.
2008/1/20, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:06 +0100, Mark wrote:
Oke i found it. it's hidden in a strange location. It's located in:
System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Removable devices and media than in the Multimedia tab.
Now that name is by far suggestion that "preferred applications" can be set in there. Would be best if this gets merged with the other Preferred Applications if you ask me.
Misunderstanding on your behalf...
The removable media preferences come into action when dealing with removable media. DVDs are removable media. You plug it in, there's an action for that.
Default application preferences are for when you ask the system to do open something. If you were to do some mouse clicking on a DVD, then here would be an appropriate place to set the default application.
Well. i don't see it as a misunderstanding on my behalf.. i didn't made 2 applications to manage preferred applications.
Where would you expect it to be if you didn't know about Removable devices and media. I would expect it to be in preferred applications. Now that i know it's not in there i still expect it to be there. The fact that there is a Removable devices and media is fine. but it shouldn't have default application stuff in it! there is clearly another application for that. The Removable devices and media should just have (for video dvd): Checkbox "Run application when video dvd is inserted?" (or something like it) and than preferred applications should take over. In reality this will make Removable devices and media pointless because it has so little options that they can be better placed in preferred applications ^_^
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 15:21 +0100, Mark wrote:
Where would you expect it to be if you didn't know about Removable devices and media.
Blunt answer: We have menus, it allows us to look through them and see what's on offer. It doesn't take too long to find these choices. And if you're unfamiliar with a system, it does pay to look through them all from time to time, and find out what they're for.
Having said that, I see room for improvement. The default applications should set what program is the DVD player, amongst other default applications you could set (music players, text editors, etc.). So that anything that calls upon a DVD player, uses your preferred one. The removeable media preferences should ask whether you want to play the DVD video automatically, or not, with the first playing option being to use your default player, *then* let you pick some other option, with another parameter, if you wanted.
e.g. Auto-play on insertion might use a simple command that starts playing full screen, and no further questions asked. Double-clicking or right-click to play a DVD might bring up a player with a GUI control panel. For those people that do have different preferences for those two different ways.
Personally, I'd turn auto-play-on-insert off, and pick a player that'd be used when I deliberately want to play a disc. I don't usually play DVDs on the computer, I do often copy them though. Auto players get in the way of that.
Mark wrote:
2008/1/20, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
Default application preferences are for when you ask the system to do open something. If you were to do some mouse clicking on a DVD, then here would be an appropriate place to set the default application.
Well. i don't see it as a misunderstanding on my behalf.. i didn't made 2 applications to manage preferred applications.
If it helps, this exact example came up on one of the devel lists last week as a really ugly part of Gnome which was being actively worked on for the next release. Preferred applications will hopefully be a lot cleaner in the next version of Gnome.
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