Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-14 Thread Joseph Neal
Can we please keep accessibility for the disabled in mind too? Unless Debian wants to be completely ableist, Gnome and KDE are the only two viable options. I worked in adaptive technology for years training blind users to use JAWS under windows. I think it's great that similar technology now

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-29 Thread Joseph Neal
What we do to combat that is All patches going into FFmpeg are > reviewed with security in mind > > The codebase was repeatledly tested with fuzzed files to uncover all > kinds of anomalies, all such found anomalies where fixed. Also > independant of googles fuzzing efforts, some of our users ha

Re: Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Joseph Neal
> > Well, my reasoning was, that we just try to wild guess about > > user capabilities. I have just learned that user behave very > > unexpected and exactly these users happen to be quite vocal > > how broken Debian is. I just would like to give them lesser > > chances to be correct when they cla

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-03 Thread Joseph Neal
> Hi > > Could you get audacious + audacious-plugins-extra from unstable and tell > us which formats are supported by xmms but not by audacious ? > Is there is a wiki page for this? Just at a glance, here is what I see. I've pasted the package descriptions for what I suspect are the most obs

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-03 Thread Joseph Neal
> Most of this packages are xmms plugins. Maintainers will need to port > them to xmms2 or bmpx, or they should be removed. > > Other packages just depend on xmms as a mere multimedia player, and > therefore we recommend the maintainers to adjust their dependencies to > bmpx, xmms2 or audacious. >

Re: What happened to Agnula.org (DeMuDi)?

2007-06-16 Thread Joseph Neal
>It would be interesting to change name Debian Multimedia to prevent > confusion with Debian-Multimedia site[1]? Piping in as a user, I can say this has caused me a bit of confusion on more than one occasion. Given that there are versions of the same packages which are alternately hosted by