* Henry Jen (henryjen at ztune.net) wrote: > 2008/8/22 Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com>: > > > > Calum: > > > > Would it make sense for us to change the default settings for media? > > Perhaps we should disable automatic launching of the media player by > > default for media types that we don't support out-of-the-box, like > > DVD? > > > > Thoughts? > >
I'm not sure this is the best idea. If we do this, instead of getting complaints that Totem launches and won't play we'll instead get complaints that nothing launches when users insert whatever media Totem can't play (ie DVD's for instance). And then we'll still look bad and leave users thinking the cause is hopeless since we don't direct them on how they might resolve this issue. Might I suggest an alternative to 'just do nothing when media is inserted that media player can't play'? Why not launch 'something' that informs the user that the media type they are trying to launch isn't supported and then offer suggestions on what they can do to add support for that type (in the case of MP3 let's say, we could point them to the fluendo plugin)? 'Something' could be a separate application that is the default for all media types 'media player' doesn't support or it could be 'media player' which would need to be enhanced to display the above information. Cheers, -- Glenn
