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 1GeDT8-0004ms-SH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:25:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9TGLUuc012929; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:21:30 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9TGIbHt014156 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:18:37 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id D446E203477 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:18:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9933203476 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:18:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.1) with ESMTPS id 17822072 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:18:34 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:18:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061023080808.0e31ed69@katana.armory.no-ip.org> <200610281918.04198.harmgeerts@home.nl> <20061029160515.GA27968@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20061029160515.GA27968@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610291718.34075.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: f48ca9e8-3ddb-4cd9-8a0f-d689232d3a8a X-Archives-Hash: a3adb94b6d1dfb458c14415b81d9493d On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:05, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I consider "Super eye-candy interface" and "Funky visualisations" as > insults against a program. The amarok website is ***BRAGGING*** about > them. I am obviously not their target market. both is OPTIONAL. without xmms/libvisual, there is no eye-candy. > > > Amarok is not a replacement, amarok is an alternative, which is > > exactly what this thread is about. > > Amarok brings along a lot of excess baggage compared to xmms. At some > point, it crosses the line of being too much. again, a lot of the stuff is optional. And the fact, that it has a dcop-interface, make it possible, to control it with scripts or from a command line. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list