Re: Music app: crippled?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 17:44 +0000, Luis Matos wrote:
> Seg, 2013-10-28 às 13:27 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams escreveu:
> > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 17:21 +0000, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 11:36 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 21:17 -0500, Andrew Ter-Grigoryan wrote:
> > > > > Will the new Music app eventually gain Rhythmbox's radio, podcast, CD,
> > > > > and Last.fm scrobbling features? Or is the goal just to keep it very
> > > > > simple and pretty?
> > > > Or, ditto, all the features and speed of Banshee.  I'll probably just
> > > > keep using banshee for the forsee-able future.  
> > > > And there is device and device-sync capability as well.
> > > Come on guys - the project only started on the second half of last year.
> > But there are applications which currently solve this problem
> > excellently and have mature code-bases.  At least for me, nobody has
> > answered the question as to why this is a needed, or even a good idea.
> > Do we really need to create yet-another-another-another media player?
> Well ... i think gnome is getting its (small) man power badly used.

If they are volunteers - they work on what they want to.  I get that
[being a volunteer developer as well].  I just do not understand the
urge to write-from-scatch when several solid bases exist.

> I believe that it would be nicer to see *new* development in a calendar
> (i think it is going on), email, rss, twitter application because it is
> true that evolution, unfortunately sucks (or oficially drop it and adopt
> thunderbird). RhythmBox does his job well at least.

No, Evolution has not sucked for some time now.  3.8.x is good, and
3.10.x is excellent.  3.4 & 3.6 where dodgy.

-- 
Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA