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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QtMultimedia, Phonon, tougths.
From:       Robert Knight <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-12 10:49:06
Message-ID: 13ed09c01003120249h662df4fdkb5fb28987960a5f4 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Please be more respectful towards others' work. ("Humble opinion" and "sucks" don't
> go well together, either.)

It depends - sometimes a blunt, honest assessment is the most helpful.

Regards,
Robert.

On 12 March 2010 08:01, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 12:46 AM, Leo Franchi wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>>> On 03/11/2010 05:59 PM, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
>>>> Recently I read that QtMultimedia is not using Phonon as backend,
>>>> thus, probably reimplementing a lot of it.
>>>> What is the 'official' kde view, to continue on phonon or move to QtMultimedia?
>>>>
>>>> KDE 4.6 will probably be based on Qt 4.7, so it's something to consider.
>>>> Port Juk to QtMultimedia, maybe?
>>>
>>> Though I'm not a KDE dev, I'll put a comment here.  I tried to use
>>> Phonon recently for an app.  I simply came to the conclusion that it,
>>> well, sucks :P  Sure, this:
>>>
>>>      A new era of writing multimedia-enabled
>>>      applications in KDE is about to begin.
>>>      It's time to push to new limits.
>>>
>>> sounds nice (http://phonon.kde.org).  But as I discovered, it's not that
>>> rosy.  It's so extremely limited, whoever wrote the above text must have
>>> been talking about something else entirely.  Phonon seems like it's only
>>> useful for simple, "Hello World"-like multimedia (just playing music
>>> from files or from the net), with a very limited API.
>>> [...]
>>
>> Oh gee, it must be a mystery then how a non-trivial KDE app like
>> Amarok uses Phonon.
>
>  From what I gather at looking at Amarok's source, it's a non-trivial
> app when it comes to the rest of it (GUI, collection scanning, building
> and management, etc); its audio needs are still trivial.  It's a bit
> like a nuclear reactor: all that technology and in the end all it does
> is boil a rather plain cauldron of water to produce some steam ;-)
>
>
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