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Gnome's new video player, Showtime, gets merged into the main branch. The new video player will replace Totem on Gnome 49. (gitlab.gnome.org)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Gnome seems to swap out default apps pretty often. Are the old apps getting abandoned? Or are they always jumping to the next cool new thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

GNOME mostly abandons their old apps. However, in some cases, the Xapps project has taken over these older code bases.

https://linuxmint-developer-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xapps.html

[–] [email protected] 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Here's what I found.

Why does Totem need to be replaced?

Totem is still a GTK3 app and is unmaintained (in part due to a crusty codebase), seeing no major development in years. Replacing it with a modern GTK4/libadwaita app designed to use modern technologies and meet modern needs has been a “high priority” for GNOME.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I don’t think they’re usually abandoned. At least not right away. But they rarely still get feature updates. Mostly just bug fixes. Not sure if it’s just different developers not wanting to stick to the same project of someone else’s code or what.