Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I 
> cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve 
> this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very 
> unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in this 
> time?

Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I *think* On my system 
it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that happened when 
amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that, but why is it so 
*slow*???

Fuck also knows what the amarok devs are doing in general. I still can't find 
a way to move stuff to an mp3 player like the old 1.4 version did. And the 
library thingamagij still doesn't always update tags, or put tag changes that 
it itself did into it's own database. It gladly accepts any changes you make 
in the Edit Tags dialog, and tries to write them, even if it knows it cannot 
do it (no support for that format, permissions, etc). Then, no warning or 
message about this. Depending on which bleeding edge latest-svn commit build 
you happen to get on any given day, this last might or might not tell you 
something in the status bar.

For all the above reasons, and more, I have switched to clementine (it's in 
portage). It's a Qt port of amarok-1.4 and has equivalents of all the music-
playing goodness that amarok used to have. It doesn't do tags, external 
players, wikipedia etc etc, it just plays music. And you have to tag your 
music by other means with eg kid3. I can live with that. At least it starts 
and stays up.


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