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I just want to bring a point that may be relevant. At some point I
asked
@csoriano if video thumbnailing would move to the core of nautilus because I
usually prefer another media player, however, their response was that totem
is part of the core and if it is not included in the distribution it should
be considered a bug. Thumbnailing is something desired for new users and it
may be the case that a user simply installs an alternative media player and
does not know that totem is "necessary" to provide this functionality in the
file manager.
This would obviously be fixed if totem wasn't in the core. I've already fixed
it weeks ago for Flatpaks that need video thumbnailing:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem-video-thumbnailer
Problem being that, as it stands, it has the same problems as totem without
any way to trigger downloading and installing codecs.