Speaking as a programmer, I entirely agree with you about feature creep.
OTOH, speaking as a user, switching between multiple programs to manage
the output of a single device is annoying.  In the end, the question is
just how much the file management features of DT are considered to be
"core"; if they are core, then adding lightweight management of non-core
filetypes is reasonable.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013, Tony Arnold wrote:
>
> This idea is potential feature creep leading to bloatware! DT is for
> processing RAW images and it does that very well. Let's not add features
> that have nothing to do with RAW images.
> 
> There are plenty of other tools for downloading and managing videos on
> Linux. Just use those.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> 
> On 10/06/13 06:55, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi Alexandre,
> > 
> > I am not a programmer so not sure what I had in mind with the
> > workaround.  I guess it would be if there was a way to show other file
> > types (non image) in lighttable mode and then open with the default
> > program.  I like Moritz's suggestion for the rudimentary support, I
> > think this is about what digikam does.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Patrick
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >     On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:11 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >     > Is there any way to view videos
> > 
> >     No.
> > 
> >     > (or any workaround)?
> > 
> >     What kind of?
> > 
> >     Alexandre Prokoudine
> >     http://libregraphicsworld.org
> > 
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