On Sunday 15 February 2009 19:22:24 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nicolas L?cureuil 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. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090215/367f1a1b/attachment.bin
