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So, do I understand correctly that if you install Totem from Flatpak,
there
will be no thumbnails in Nautilus? For thumbnails, you need codecs installed
locally in the system? That would be another argument for improving the
local codecs installation procedure/guide, instead of trying to rely on
Flatpaks (which only solve part of the story).
This is a packaging bug, nautilus (packaged as an RPM) should depend on the
thumbnailers for the formats it wants to show thumbnails for. For example,
out-of-the-box, there's no thumbnailers for epubs but there's one for comic
books and PDFs.
I don't understand why you paint it as the only two available
options. The
first one is an improvement, yes. The second one is a decline (at least in
my eyes). We can still keep the current state (not ideal, but still better
than the second option). Or perhaps do something else (like the virtual
package in rpmfusion which can be easily installed and provide good guides
in many places, improve messaging in totem when a codec is not found, etc).
Those are the only 2 options if we want to make things better. Your example
of something else would still require fixing the automatic codecs installation
flow.