Re: Bug#197907: ITP: quark -- an audio player, for geeks, by geeks.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:39:25PM +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:30, Sven Luther wrote:
> > The upstream author is not so happy about the FIFO controlled stuff,
> > since it sounds as if using quark is difficult.
>
> Right, the FIFO(implementation) is irrelevant for most users.
>
> > I was thinking of something along the lines of :
> >
> > Description: simple audio player which does not clutter the desktop
>
> In the Un*x-world, this is called a daemon, so why not call it thus? And what
> is it that makes it simple?
>
> ...consisting of a daemon and several controller-frontends.
Mmm, yes, didn't think of that. It may be too long for the short
description thought
Description: simple audio player consisting of a daemon and several controller-frontends
88-20+1, or 69 characters. Also, it may make it sound more complex than
it really is.
> Advantages are:
> > o It does not clutter the desktop with a GUI.
> >
> > o It is composed of a backend and a frontend, and thus survive the
> > killing of the current X session, which is rather nice.
>
> o Can be controlled via command-line(can it?) or one of several GUIs
Yep, there is a cli and a gnome notification-area frontend.
> o Uses the wide capabilities of xine <link> for playing audio-files
This would be better placed in the full description.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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