Author: alan c Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Dependency Madness - was Debian Etch
andSynaptic?
Jack Knight wrote: > Alan Pope wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 09:25 +0000, Jack Knight wrote:
>>> Jim Kissel wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> Now I don't know much about building a distro, but I fail to understand
>>>> why nautilus/metecity/gnome/xorgwhich needs to have a 'C' pre-processor
>>>> installed. Any offers?
>>> On the same line as your recent post, I don't get on with the Totem
>>> media player.
>>
>> Personally I would recommend you use totem-xine rather than
>> totem-gstreamer, it seems to be able to play a lot more.
>
> Thanks Al, but I'd rather just use mplayer for everything, because it
> really *does* seem to play just about anything given the right codecs.
> I've googled, hacked and fiddled, removed totem completely and firefox 2
> *still* tries to open stuff with totem. I've removed caches, changed
> mime types and finally symlinked /usr/bin/totem to /usr/bin/gmplayer,
> which kind of works albeit ps ax shows totem running!
With Firefox I know that the plugins are key to much of what goes on.
Have you used the url
about:plugins
to see what plugins are already associated with firefox?
