default media player

[Warren Togami]

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any reason why Totem is not the default media player in FC4 ?
> The test releases still have Helix Player, while Totem is now the
> default GNOME player, and currently it plays more formats.  (Helix
> Player was added quite late to FC3 and without any warning or discussion
> - I probably should have brought it up sooner :))
> 
> Helix Player is not very nice UI-wise (check the number of tabs under
> preferences), and not particularly well integrated with the desktop.
> Any particular reason why it should be the default ? For that matter,
> shouldn't it get moved to Extras anyway ?
> 

Agreed we should do this.  Core can ship with totem, and arbitrary 
3rd-party provided plugins can be added in order to enable other codecs.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com