• @Uncut_Lemon@lemmy.world
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    36 hours ago

    It looks very underwhelming. Do Linux Desktop Devs ever actually managed a collection/playlists or even listen to music on their machines?

  • Coelacanthus
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    315 hours ago

    So their video player should be named “Nits”.

  • @drspod@lemmy.ml
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    421 hours ago

    vlc is always one of the first things I install on any machine of any OS. Who even uses the built in media player?

  • kbal
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    -323 hours ago

    I’m sure it’s very nice but tying an audio player app, or a text editor, an rss reader, or any other such tool to one specific desktop environment is an unbearably stupid idea and makes me think that both Gnome and KDE have made a seriously wrong turn somewhere.

    • @chakli@lemmy.world
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      422 hours ago

      It’s not that bad imo, probably good UX wise. People using gnome have a specific mindset/expectation that usually does not apply to people using KDE (and reverse).

      Most of the heavy lifting is done by lower level libs anyway. So the duplication is not as extreme. E.g Firefox doesn’t gel well with KDE by default. And thunderbird looks quite foreign.

    • @infeeeee@lemm.ee
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      322 hours ago

      It’s not tied to Gnome, you can install it wherever you want. https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Decibels

      I was annoyed that Gnome didn’t have a very basic “sound file player”, everything polished wanted to be something more, like support for music libraries, etc. I downloaded a single wav file, I want to listen what’s in it, there was no perfect app for that.

      • @LorIps@lemmy.world
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        422 hours ago

        Decibels has already existed for ages. I use it as my default audio player for random sound files and Gapless for albums

      • kbal
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        322 hours ago

        “It’s not tied to Gnome”

                ID                                            Branch               Op           Remote            Download
         1.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.08                i            flathub           < 156.3 MB
         2.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.08extra           i            flathub           < 156.3 MB
         3.     org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264             2.4.1                i            flathub           < 976.5 kB
         4.     org.gnome.Decibels.Locale                     stable               i            flathub            < 25.9 kB (partial)
         5.     org.gnome.Platform.Locale                     47                   i            flathub           < 386.5 MB (partial)
         6.     org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Greybird                    3.22                 i            flathub            < 91.8 kB
         7.     org.gnome.Platform                            47                   i            flathub           < 384.1 MB
         8.     org.gnome.Decibels                            stable               i            flathub           < 144.2 kB
        
        Proceed with these changes to the user installation? [Y/n]: 
        

        That’s a lot of megabytes for a simple audio player.