On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Paul Cutler
From my time in #banshee IRC, it's too early to tell what the Banshee release in Ubuntu will look like. They're trying to slim it down right now, so some community extensions may be missing in Ubuntu. Other than that, core functionality will be the same including music & video playback, podcasts, last.fm support, iPod support, etc.
Good thing, as long as we offer more functionality that's good for us. We better wait a bit and check what is really happening.
The only other thing I'm personally watching is if they change the Amazon referral codes.
I don't know if Banshee is somewhere I'd put my focus on. Yes, we had
Banshee is in a way the most representative 'face' of Multimedia capabilities in openSUSE GNOME, so I trully think that it should be something that we as 'openSUSE' should have some highlighting. On the other hand, since it's product associated with Novell, I think that it even makes a stronger argument.
Banshee first, I get that. We should be thinking about our GNOME user experience vs. Unity, in my opinion. There are lots of rumblings in
I would strongly suggest cooperation between openSUSE and GNOME Marketing teams to develop this concept of experience with gnome-shell. In fact we could pretty much work with other distributions like Fedora for this approach and give it a more uniform statement cross-projects about gnome-shell. We should all be UNITED on this one. At least between GNOME and openSUSE I would risk to say it would be an awesome experience (marketing wise) to work together on this.
the community that people who prefer GNOME are switching to Debian and Fedora - how do we capitalize on that?
This I don't understand... could you elaborate? Who is swapping to Fedora and why? our users? or Ubuntu users... This is very interesting Paul, please provide more info, because if that is the case (even if it's a rumor), it's also an opportunity for us and we can benefit from it directly and indirectly. Nelson PS: A bit off-topic, in the scope of openSUSE Project, like I stated before, having Unity available for our users on a repo would enable our users to test it and see it without vendor change. If there are no legal entanglements and someone want to place some work on that happening could be interesting to openSUSE as a vertical defense method to keep our local population/users happy and not risk them with a vendor change for some crazy hype thingie. Just one of my concerns.
Paul
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Nelson Marques
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Banshee is our default since 11.0 atleast, Ever since we had slab menu, I don't remember seeing any other media player in it. May be for 11.4 GNOME screenshots, as part of announce mail, we can include Banshee's also (purchasing music from amazon). I believe we may not need anything more. But do you have any other suggestions ?
Well, since Ubuntu is going to place some lights on it, the best way to use that into our advantage is maybe to provide a more 'featured' release, though I don't know how that could become possible, or if it's already like that.
Any links to info regarding banshee? Something I can compare with the version that canonical is going to release and then see how we can take advantage of it.
Another thing I remember would probably be improving GNOME slide on the Installer slide show to something more objective and accurate. I have the artwork sources in gitorious for those files, so I can rewrite them, and they even support pictures :) (and .rtf ? wtf?).
By the way... I would like to suggest one thing for a future release, maybe on the major... Present the openSUSE GNOME Desktop as 'The choice of a generation'? Would that sound good? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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