Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-06-06 Thread Jérôme Warnier
> > By the way debedit spew some debugging output at me and seems also a bit > > laggy. Is it still beta? (: > I was unable to find debedit, are you speaking about debtags-edit? I am Yes, he was talking about debtags-edit, as the mail he replies to states. > not sure if it is still beta, but it

Re: Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-06-01 Thread Jürgen Wehner
why not define "multimedia" for all sound, video, voip and so on stuff? Juergen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-06-01 Thread Philipp Kern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philipp Kern wrote: > I do not know if there were previous discussions on this topic, but the > new section I propose would seperate media players from image processing > tools. Plugins for those players which are currently put into "libs" > should als

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-30 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > the right thing to do would be to switch from sections, to keywords, so > that kmplayer could live in sound + video + kde, instead of multimedia > that is not very informative. I want to stress what Adrian and Benjamin said a bi

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-30 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Is it already used in any package management tools? Or is the debedit > GUI currently the only program using the preliminary database? There is a library being implemented (libapt-front.alioth.debian.org) to wrap libapt and also inc

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-28 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, > Is it already used in any package management tools? Or is the debedit > GUI currently the only program using the preliminary database? As far as I know it is hidden deep into synaptic, but I don't know if the support is currently broken or not. Also there is a cool search application cal

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-28 Thread Philipp Kern
Benjamin Mesing wrote: Exactly. The debtags system is quite mature now - what it still lacks is a complete set of data. If you want to help completing the data, you should consider downloading debtags-edit. Also have a look at http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ for more details. Is it already us

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:14 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:00 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Gergely Nagy wrote: > > > Then media players are just fine in graphics or sound, depending on > > > which is their main focus (or they could even be in gnome or kde, or > > > whatever

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello > > > the right thing to do would be to switch from sections, to keywords, so > > > that kmplayer could live in sound + video + kde, instead of multimedia > > > that is not very informative. > > > > Now this, I'd second :) > > > > (OTOH, I'm not volunteering to implement support for this, I

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Friday 27 May 2005 04:09 am, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > though, that would mean that 'sound' won't have that many package. so > maybe we should rename sound into multimedia and populate it with video > players too ? It might make sense -- but on the other hand, given that our sections will be

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 27 May 2005 14.15, Gergely Nagy wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:13 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > the right thing to do would be to switch from sections, to keywords, so > > that kmplayer could live in sound + video + kde, instead of multimedia > > that is not very informative. > >

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:13 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Vendredi 27 Mai 2005 14:00, Philipp Kern a écrit : > > Gergely Nagy wrote: > > > Then media players are just fine in graphics or sound, depending on > > > which is their main focus (or they could even be in gnome or kde, > > > or whatev

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:00 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Gergely Nagy wrote: > > Then media players are just fine in graphics or sound, depending on > > which is their main focus (or they could even be in gnome or kde, or > > whatever). > > Please see it from a user's point of view. If one wants a

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Vendredi 27 Mai 2005 14:00, Philipp Kern a écrit : > Gergely Nagy wrote: > > Then media players are just fine in graphics or sound, depending on > > which is their main focus (or they could even be in gnome or kde, > > or whatever). > > Please see it from a user's point of view. If one wants a m

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Philipp Kern
Gergely Nagy wrote: Then media players are just fine in graphics or sound, depending on which is their main focus (or they could even be in gnome or kde, or whatever). Please see it from a user's point of view. If one wants a media player why should (s)he look in "gnome" or "kde"? And I person

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 07:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:17 +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > > El Viernes 27 Mayo 2005 14:09, Pierre Habouzit escribió: > > > > multimedia seems more appropriat

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:17 +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > El Viernes 27 Mayo 2005 14:09, Pierre Habouzit escribió: > > > multimedia seems more appropriate. most of the video player actually are > > > music player too, and

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:17 +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Viernes 27 Mayo 2005 14:09, Pierre Habouzit escribió: > > multimedia seems more appropriate. most of the video player actually are > > music player too, and some music player can show video with appropriate > > plugins (xmms e.

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
El Viernes 27 Mayo 2005 14:09, Pierre Habouzit escribió: > multimedia seems more appropriate. most of the video player actually are > music player too, and some music player can show video with appropriate > plugins (xmms e.g.) > > though, that would mean that 'sound' won't have that many package.

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > maybe we should rename sound into multimedia and populate it with video > players too ? Seconded. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Vendredi 27 Mai 2005 12:40, Philipp Kern a écrit : > Dear Debian fellows, > > when does a group of packages warrant the introduction of a new > section? At least I could request some comments without any > obligation. > > I know of some users which were distracted by our "graphics" section, > as

RFC: A new video-related section

2005-05-27 Thread Philipp Kern
Dear Debian fellows, when does a group of packages warrant the introduction of a new section? At least I could request some comments without any obligation. I know of some users which were distracted by our "graphics" section, as they searched for multimedia or more precisely movie players a