Jokosher should become a part of the Gnome Project
Bug #347585 reported by
billytalent
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Jokosher |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since Jokosher uses GStreamer as its main audiohandling library, it should be a part of Gnome Projects (like Cheese - the webcam app). This would mean that once Jokosher is quite stable, Gnome could add Jokosher as a default application. Maybe also rename the application to something that makes more sense like GBand or GnomeBand. I know Jokosher is Jono Bacon's project, but changing the name to something that makes sense is for the greater good.
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First of all, Jokosher is not Jono Bacon's project. He hasn't been involved for a few years now, but you are correct the name Jokosher did originate as a cheeky derivative of his name. But we like the name and I don't think we want to change it.
Making Jokosher part of Gnome is a valid idea, but I don't see how it has anything to do with changing the name. Cheese is not called GCheese, F-Spot is not called G-Spot, Epiphany is not called GEpiphany. Cheese makes sense to the user as a camera app but F-Spot and Epiphany have little to no connection to their application category. Also I think the name GBand/GnomeBand is a pretty blatant rip off of Apple's GarageBand.
Do you know what the requirements to join Gnome are, and what the benefits would be? What would be the advantage to getting Jokosher in Gnome versus being included in the main repository of the major distributions? I don't know what exactly joining Gnome would entail, but it is something to think about as Jokosher gets more stable.