Drop Channels feature?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Totem |
New
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Unknown
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totem (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu's default video app, Totem, includes a Channels tab with 3 web video providers:
- Apple Movie Trailers
- Euronews
- Rai.tv
Screenshot attached.
I recommend that we disable this feature because
- These are somewhat obscure video sources
- It can be unexpected to parents, school administrators, etc. for this app to be able to view web content
- Perhaps most importantly, none of these 3 sources seemed to work today in my clean Ubuntu 23.04 install.
+ Apple Movie Trailers worked after I installed the additional media support which is offered in the Ubuntu installer (ubuntu-
+ Based on the errors shown in my terminal, it looks like Euronews either changed their API or it's no longer available.
- If these channels can be broken and we aren't getting bug reports, are people actually even using this feature?
Implementation
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This feature is enabled by some plugins shipped in totem's src/plugins . They can be disabled by the meson build.
Also, totem depends on grilo-plugins-
We would then also need to patch Totem to no longer show the Channels page in the Totem app.
The idea was also suggested upstream on https:/ /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/totem/ -/issues/ 355