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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Noatun - fix or throw it out
From:       Nikolas Zimmermann <wildfox () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-19 9:09:11
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On Saturday 19 May 2001 02:50, Charles Samuels wrote:
> 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.
what ?
The aRts playing code did NOT change!
I didn't even touch simplesoundserver
_only_ kaboodle is converted to the new iface.
Nothing was changed on the aRts side, i just added code
to SoundServerV2, but didn't change "old" code :)

So... me? buster? no no no ;)

Bye
 Bye
  Niko

>
> 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? :)

-- 
Nikolas Zimmermann
wildfox@kde.org
 
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