On Sunday 15 February 2009 21:28:29 Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. > 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090215/668f9ce0/attachment.html
