Binary package hint: totem
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 + updates to 2009-09-27
Package: totem 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
As I don't use Totem, I want to be able to uninstall it (since it is associated by default with every audio/video format) and use a different player. However, I don't want to lose the ability to view A/V information from Nautilus.
If I remove everything but totem-common, I retain the Nautilus file info audio video tab, but a totem.desktop remains, leaving behind Totem's file associations (which no longer work). If I remove totem common, I get an error when viewing audio/video file properties, as /usr/share/totem/properties.ui is now missing.
Suggestion: move /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop from totem-common to totem. Looking at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-app-install/+bug/13754 seems to suggest that totem-common exists partly to deal with totem-xine/totem-gstreamer issues, but totem-xine is now no more.
Just to highlight - PLEASE don't 'fix' by merging totem and totem-common or making totem-common depend on totem (if that's even possible!) as that would remove the ability to separate the Totem player and Nautilus.