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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: potamus - unable to load music files from gui
- From: "Neil Williams" <neil@codehelp.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:19:14 +0100
- Message-id: <20090622111914.23599.96383.reportbug@dwarf.codehelp>
Package: potamus
Version: 0.10-1
Severity: normal
When potamus is started from the GNOME menu or the Debian menu,
the window just shows "No file. stopped" and there is no way of
changing where potamus looks for music files within the GUI.
Starting potamus from the command-line is fine but then there
are command-line tools that can play music from the command-line.
It seems bizarre to have a GUI client that cannot be used when
started as a GUI client.
Even a simple File->Open dialog that allows a directory to be
specified would be useful - or maybe some setting in a file so
that users can specify the top level directory of the music
collection. (Although with a large music collection, that could
get tedious to find the desired tracks.)
Users should be able to click on a button in potamus, select a
directory (often a single album or single artist) and let potamus
play those files.
Maybe the Play button can be re-used to save adding another button,
by allowing it to remain enabled instead of being greyed out.
If no files are selected, Play could open a FileChooser dialog based
on the home directory of the current user. As Play has already been
selected, if appropriate music files are then found in the selected
directory, playback could start immediately.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages potamus depends on:
ii jackd 0.116.1-4 JACK Audio Connection Kit (server
ii libao2 0.8.8-5 Cross Platform Audio Output Librar
ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavcodec52 4:0.5+svn20090420-2 ffmpeg codec library
ii libavformat52 4:0.5+svn20090420-2 ffmpeg file format library
ii libc6 2.9-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libflac8 1.2.1-1.2 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.2-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjack0 0.116.1-4 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-4 MPEG audio decoder library
ii libmodplug0c2 1:0.8.7-1 shared libraries for mod music bas
ii libogg0 1.1.3-5 Ogg Bitstream Library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-2 audio rate conversion library
ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-5 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-5 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
potamus recommends no packages.
potamus suggests no packages.
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