While I wouldn’t oppose the idea of a pre-installed music player, I believe Rhythmbox was never a core application. I hope they won’t make a music player a core app because you cannot uninstall them because of dependencies. Also the first impression is the distro’s concern not GNOME’s. I support modularism instead of making softwares bundle in a bundle. For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat. For GNOME, they are in too deep for dependencies, as for KDE.
I appreciate GNOME’s work for simplicity, but I don’t appreciate their dependency hell.
Rhythmbox was originally a GNOME 2 app that never fully made it into the GNOME 3 era. Otoh, “core apps” is a concept introduced some time after GNOME 3.0. That timeline can’t match up.
The original GNOME 3/4 core music player was/is GNOME Music. Except GNOME Music was so reduced as to be barely useful, especially at the beginning. Creating an opening for e.g. Lollypop.
Also the first impression is the distro’s concern not GNOME’s.
Before core apps were introduced thereight be distros that would randomly ship GNOME with VLC, FileZilla, and xterm. I.e. apps that don’t integrate well with GNOME and are not regularly used by average users.
The idea behind core apps was trying to influence app selection on such distros. To make sure that all distros would ship with a default selection of useful, well-integrated apps. Iow, first impression is a major reason why core apps are even a thing.
For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat
I don’t think I worried about “DE bloat” any time in the past ten years. Might be different if I was using Raspi desktop. :)
While I wouldn’t oppose the idea of a pre-installed music player, I believe Rhythmbox was never a core application. I hope they won’t make a music player a core app because you cannot uninstall them because of dependencies. Also the first impression is the distro’s concern not GNOME’s. I support modularism instead of making softwares bundle in a bundle. For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat. For GNOME, they are in too deep for dependencies, as for KDE.
I appreciate GNOME’s work for simplicity, but I don’t appreciate their dependency hell.
Rhythmbox was originally a GNOME 2 app that never fully made it into the GNOME 3 era. Otoh, “core apps” is a concept introduced some time after GNOME 3.0. That timeline can’t match up.
The original GNOME 3/4 core music player was/is GNOME Music. Except GNOME Music was so reduced as to be barely useful, especially at the beginning. Creating an opening for e.g. Lollypop.
Before core apps were introduced thereight be distros that would randomly ship GNOME with VLC, FileZilla, and xterm. I.e. apps that don’t integrate well with GNOME and are not regularly used by average users.
The idea behind core apps was trying to influence app selection on such distros. To make sure that all distros would ship with a default selection of useful, well-integrated apps. Iow, first impression is a major reason why core apps are even a thing.
I don’t think I worried about “DE bloat” any time in the past ten years. Might be different if I was using Raspi desktop. :)