GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
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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.
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.
Decibels has already existed for ages. I use it as my default audio player for random sound files and Gapless for albums
"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.
On aur gnome is not a direct dependency: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/decibels-git
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.