Is this a sign for things to come? [XMMS Removal]

MM23 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 83

Audacious barely uses any more CPU or RAM for me. Besides, why does it matter if it does? I don't think anyone who is using a computer to listen to music and browse the internet is going to be running a 133 mhz Pentium with 16 MB of RAM.

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

Alejandro Nova · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 50

Audacious 1.2.2.
- Doublesize support.
- EasyMove support.
- XMMS file selector clone
- Stable. It has its quirks, but it's definitely better than 1.2.1 (XMMS was unstable like hell here, the spanish text did not display and the CPU was 100% at all times while XMMS tried to draw its interface).

If you want to blame someone for memory consumption, blame GTK2 developers. And, considering that GTK2, unlike GTK1, supports Unicode, Cairo, antialiased fonts, a real object model... I wouldn't blame them either.

BTW, please, bring to Portage libvisual-audacious, if you can. The lack of eye candy may be disturbing for some, and with the new libvisual-projectm, Audacious can give XMMS fans more than what they want.
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nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1382 Location: SoCal

warrens · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:05 am Post subject:

It is sad to see XMMS go away, but we have to face the unfortunate facts. First that comes to mind is that XMMS has no upstream support as the developers of XMMS have moved to XMMS2, which is still a long ways from usable. Second XMMS uses GTK-1 and will never be upgraded to GTK-2 becuase of reason 1. These two facts have rendered XMMS to the dustbin of history. Hopefully XMMS2 will be better than the original and comes out befor GTK-3.
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Gentree · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject:

glad to see the back of it. Always seemed like more work typing mplayer on a command line.

unusable on any display I've had in it's native micro size and when it's double size it looks like shit because it's nothing cleverer than mapping one pixel to a 2x2 square.

What century is this ?

Luckily audacious is half way to reproducing the ugly and disfuntional interface the Luddites of GUI technology.

For the rest of us it's probably a good imputus to see what else there is available.

There are plenty of worth while bugs for the devs to spend thier worthy time on.

I'd be really happy if my printer actually worked when I needed it.

That seems to one area where I spend 10x longer refixing it than I ever spend using it .

Everyone post your ideas for what devs could do with all the time they've got on thier hands now xxmms is a dead parrot. :lol:

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