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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