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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Noatun - fix or throw it out
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-19 0:50:40
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On Friday 18 May 2001 04:36 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> one thing that' bugging me since weeks if not month, but after this
> weeks' show in Frankfurt and other complains I got, I'd say the
> following: either we move noatun out to kdenonbeta and take the kde 2.0
> media player again, or it gets fixed by the ones who did it so it
> acutally *works*. I won't spend even an hour on another KDE booth with
> that buggy thing shipping as #1 quality work of KDE and I don't even
> want to *think* about the people bashing at us on LinuxTag for this
> crime on music loving people although the effects are great. I think
> it's not too late for the ones that wrote it to fix it up for 2.2 and
> increase the stability so this is your #1 chance to fix up things and
> produce something that is rock-solid - and has to be as most people use
> it or will say, hey, this is KDE, it has to work. It doesn't so KDE is
> trash :-)
>
> (PS: I know I'm shooting over the goal again, but my blood pressure
> breaks any meassure instrument when it comes to noatun after *a whole
> day of crashes* when clicking on a filename on either of these !@# three
> different playlists!!!) :-)

Have you used noatun, by any chance on a release?  Well _DUH_ it's going to 
be busted, all the playing code has probably changed %200 on the aRts side (I 
thought I physically toasted by sound card until I heard from the breaker of 
the code (Nikolas Zimmermann :) told me it was busted.

o Here's a number of things you can do to make it more stable: use the 
beta-quality kdemultimedia/mpg123_artsplugin thingy instead of 
mpeglib_artsplug (uninstall the latter :)

o Revert kdelibs/arts and all of kdemultimedia to either a very early post 
2.1.2, or an actual 2.1.2 version

o Fix it yourself, DUH, what kind of coder are you? :)



-- 
Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
K Desktop Environment
"The people. Could you patent the sun?"
 -- Jonas E. Salk, when asked who owned the patent on his polio vaccine.

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