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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kde mp3 player
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-05-05 0:53:09
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One other thing on this topic is not just that kdemultimedia needs an MP3
player, but that I personally prefer most important applications to be in the
CVS (whether it's in a base package or not). Not only does this make
distribution to developers easier, but it shows a more open approach to
application development where a program can benefit from a wider amount of
developer attention. For example, when the CVS switched to Qt2.0 coolo ported
many apps for us. This is just a small example of the teamwork that can be
gained by truly opening up your code instead of retaining it as a local
project and just accepting patches.

Of course, whoever writes the code owns it and it is up to them what they
want to do with it ;-)

Just my humble opinion,
Daniel M. Duley
mosfet@kde.org

Aaron Levinson wrote:

> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Sean Kendall Schneyer wrote:
>
> > Christian Esken wrote:
> > > KDE should ship with a MP3 player. A desktop today without
> > > is not a true desktop :-)
> > >
> > > If you are going to maintain it in KDE´s CVS server, please feel
> > > free to add it.
> >
> > No offence to the author of rasca, but do we really need to have
> > an "official" KDE app for every single application domain? There
> > are already several well established mp3 players out there.
> > Personally I love x11amp. It supports Winamp skins and even
>
> While it might be nice to have an mp3 player included with KDE, it's not
> clear to me how a decision can be made to include one of the KDE mp3
> players over the rest.  Currently, there are Kmp3, rasca, kmpg and
> KJukebox, and there may be more (although KJukebox serves a slightly
> different purpose than the rest of the players).  To immediately decide to
> make rasca the "mp3 player of choice" is sort of pushing it.  I find it
> rather interesting that on the Rasca homepage, one of the news blurbs
> declares that the author or authors hates QT and is considering switching
> to gtk....
>
> Aaron Levinson

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