From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGEFF-0000Z0-ML for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:23:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7OCMQqM013267; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:22:26 GMT Received: from sas2.stonline.sk (sas2.t-com.sk [213.81.152.133]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7OCJUKY007955 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:19:31 GMT Received: from av3.stonline.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by sas2.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7OCJT2i009472 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:19:30 +0200 Received: from smtp.t-com.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by av3.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k7OCJTV1012782 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:19:29 +0200 Received: from amit.kihnet.sk (adsl-d249.87-197-178.t-com.sk [87.197.178.249]) by smtp2.stonline.sk (STOnline ESMTP Server) with ESMTPA id <0J4I00HV04WGW4@smtp2.stonline.sk> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by amit.kihnet.sk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E40255C8720; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:19:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:19:25 +0200 From: Robert Cernansky Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die. In-reply-to: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> Sender: mjlkcher@stonline.sk To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.67.0 'Constance', compiled for Linux 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE References: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> X-Archives-Salt: 67db8a7b-1ae1-4c47-94c7-85163eff0219 X-Archives-Hash: c88dd6709399533aa9b158d32a2db8ed On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:30:20 +0100 Luis Medinas wrote: > We have a few alternatives like audacious, gstreamer based players > and xine-lib players (did i forget anything ?). The problem is that [...] > So i'm asking for a solution either remove xmms, move the maintainer > for anyone who volunteer or the sound herd. My plans now is replace > xmms for xmms2 (that i would like to take the > maintainership). Opinions ? Ideas ? Just pure user point of view: I search for alternatives and closest that I found in amd64 stable portage tree is audacious. But it have less functionality than xmms (even than xmms_with_bugs). Most missing is gapless output, so when playing continuous tracks I get ugly spaces between them, brr. Other missing is very usefull xosd support and great xmms-pipe (which does not work for me currently, I reported it yesterday - this was probably last drop for you Luis :-( ) so xmms can be widely controlled by external commands. This is disadvantages that I have remembered now. I'm sure I'll find others in the future (as always when swithching software). Also there are for sure more, that affect other users. In general, after removing xmms we, users, only get less functionality. Notthing will be better. So it sounds not logical to remove functional, widely used piece of software which is better (even with current bugs) then alternatives. Kind regards Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: hslists2@zoznam.sk Jabber: HS@jabber.sk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list