From kde-multimedia Sat Jun 04 18:19:29 2011 From: Harald Sitter Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:19:29 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: Official deprecation of phonon-backend-xine Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=130721162310817 On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Ian Monroe wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:21, Trever Fischer > wrote: >> Its been mentioned once or twice in public channels, but nobody has actually >> made a straightforward announcement. >> >> The Xine backend for Phonon is totally unmaintained and therefore deprecated. >> The only backends people should be using are VLC and GStreamer. >> >> Unless of course, some willing and brave developer would like to step up and >> take on the challenge :) > > How do we publicize this fact better? Move the phonon repo to some > as-yet uncreated attic space on git.kde.org? Yeah, along with every other backend except the two aforementioned ones. And perhaps add a README. Other than that we probably cannot do much, we already have set the preferences of the desktop files (for KDE) so that xine is not used whenever a working backend is present. Should people despite all that still complain about issues in pxine then we might just start trolling them ;) regards, Harald _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia