[Bug 453422] Review Request: songbird - Mozilla based multimedia player

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--- Comment #64 from Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) <kwizart at gmail.com>  2009-05-07 12:22:34 EDT ---
songbird once first install wants to install fonts.

On my system (F-11 installed from a customized livecd) Not all fonts are
installed while running the first time license file. This make songbird to
request bengali and other asian fonts (via packagekit) which aren't available
while watching the license. Once the installation of the fonts is refused with
PackageKit, gpk-update-icon crash with this possible indication:
(songbird-bin:2333): PkGtkModule-DEBUG: InstallFontconfRessources method
invoked.


In my opinion, there is a problem both with the license advertising and the
installation of recommended plugins.

That's rather annoying for a newly created users to have all sort of
advertising, specially if the user known well the sunbird license and/or other
well known modules. I think that previously, the same kind of problem was
raised with firefox which ends to have a less "interactive with end-user"
advertise.
(I remember some discussion on GPL not been an EULA that end-user need to
accept/reject to use the software but a pure information).

The problem about recommended modules is that: in a ideal packagekit world,
they should be provided in an safer way (trusted gpg signed package, such as
rpm or whatever, from trusted repositories). But since our firefox package
doesn't prevent installation of such extension as end-users level, i think it
should be perfectly fine.

So to sum-up, I would appreciate to have less interactive information on newly
created user (so songbird could be usable directly). But this shouldn't prevent
this package to be approved.

@David Halik,
Usually, in order for you to be sponsored, you need to provide a second review,
this review was rather big, so this could be optional but remains at the
discretion of the sponsort.

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