Comment 2 for bug 163727

I've thought about this bug a lot over the past while, and I'm not going to fix it. With the fix in bug #196135, it's about as close as is sensible as long as size matters, especially as timidity is now more widely integrated into gstreamer through wildmidi. freepats does most of the job for the simple use case, fluid-soundfont is clearly suggested for people who want something more, and there's flexibility to support more soundfonts as desired.

So, thank you for filing the bug : it's provided a wealth of inspiration towards improving the state of MIDI in Ubuntu in general. There are now soundfonts available, timidity actually plays sounds by default, and gstreamer can handle MIDI, which integrates well with the default desktop. That timidity itself doesn't force ths installation of a full soundfont should be relatively unimportant at this point. If you feel strongly that the bug *should* be fixed, and that it's worth the installation of a full soundfont, please reopen.