well, I belief if users have to install it manually, it gets complicater once again. i want to keep it simple and working for novice users!
I do not really se a problem to have another 20MB in /opt ! I have many many apps installed but still plenty of space.
So you dont have to use it if you dont want to...
And beliefe me, i was very happy when I finally gor gstreamer working. Because of that my frustrations where huge when I realised that the glibc functions make the rest of SleepAnalyser work properly
Once there is a way of using the maemo media player without apening a new window (or additionally keep it in the backround) I am happy to switch back.