On Sunday 15 February 2009 21:28:29 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:22:24 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
> > what about KScd ?
>
> That app has been rewritten and has become horrible crap in 4.2. :-(
> * Uses ugly skins instead of a standard KDE GUI.
> * Lost all its options (e.g. analog playback etc.).
> * Uses MusicBrainz instead of FreeDB:
> - which is a step backwards because you can't submit your own data, as
> far as I know you need some proprietary MusicBrainz client to do that
> (MusicBrainz has 2 levels of fingerprinting, the one implemented in Free
> Software can be used for retrieval only),
> - which also means you cannot switch to another server, because the
> protocol is non-standard,
> - and they used the old deprecated libtunepimp stack which uses an old
> protocol which will be turned off on the servers soon! And the app
> doesn't even compile without those old libs.
>
> Basically, it has become completely worthless due to the crappy rewrite.
> The old Kscd was way better than the broken excuse for an app we have in
> 4.2.
>
> They sacrificed all the useful features for skins, and I hate skins, they
> make the app look completely out of place. And there's no way to revert
> to a standard GUI. So the app is completely useless.
>
> I'm seriously thinking of forking the version from 4.1 and either
> packaging it separately or patching the Fedora kdemultimedia to include
> the forked version instead of the broken useless crap upstream ships.
Now tell us how you really feel :-) I'll take another look at it if you do
decide to do that.
Yeah... Common Kevin let it out. :). But seriously, I second the notion. I
just looked at kscd. Its ugly and it just doesn't work.
Eli
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