Le Sunday 15 February 2009 20:22:24 Kevin Kofler, vous avez ?crit : > 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. > Maybe better to help upstream instead of creating yet an other Kscd apps, i just tried Kscd and you are right this is still ugly, maybe some people can create good skins :) -- Cordialement, Nicolas L?cureuil Contributeur KDE pour Mandriva JID: neoclust at jabber.fr
