On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > As discussed on > https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/meta-gnome3/-/merge_requests/12 > we need to decide whether a new installation of trixie with GNOME should > default to installing cheese (same as bookworm) or gnome-snapshot. > Opening this bug as a reminder.
I think we should go ahead with putting gnome-snapshot (a webcam app) in gnome-core's Depends. Like with gnome-text-editor for Debian 12, we can't have an alternate dependency that was previously already installed and have upgraders get the new app installed without some kind of upgrade script which Debian does not currently have. Until last week in Testing when Pipewire was fixed (version 1.2.4), the Snapshot app wasn't usable on many computers. The Snapshot is much more complex technically than an app like Cheese as it uses many new technologies: Rust+libadwaita, Glycin, Pipewire, Camera portal, etc. But we think it works well now. >From a user perspective, compared to Cheese, it is a very simple app. It does not offer any of the fun effects and filters Cheese has. I don't know how often a simple webcam app like this would be used. I imagine many people would just use webcam webapps. There is at least some need for people to want to test whether their webcam is working without needing to use a website in a web browser. I believe OEMs like to be able to demonstrate how well their webcam works also. I believe for gnome-core, we need to ship what GNOME considers to be GNOME Core, unless we have a strong reason to diverge and I don't think we have a reason to not include gnome-snapshot any more. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
