Many thanks for Amarok !

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Good news is, a new backend is being worked on. Phonon-VLC will fix
>> all problems, and cure world hunger.
>
> Yeah I'm interested in this one. While I still thing that gstreamer is a
> better "fit" from a technology perspective, I really like VLC generally.
> Do you know if it's going to be kept in tree at kdesupport any time
> soon?

For now, we are hacking on this in Git clones (VLC is using Git, and
their repo is the current official location of the backend). Martin
Sandsmark (Phonon maintainer) wanted to upload this to
http://gitorious.org/phonon, so that all interested KDE programmers
could help with this a bit. But it seems he hasn't done this yet, so
I'm CC'ing him.

About GStreamer: We do not plan to maintain any other Phonon backends
any more, once the VLC backend is finished. The work needed for
maintaining them is not justifiable, when we can as well have one
backend (VLC) that works on all platforms. It seems like the perfect
solution to us.

So, if you want to maintain other backends, you would have to do that
on your own.

> I'd like to make sure I add the necessary glue for PA support
> (which with an unreleased patch I have is now pretty minimal - just a
> couple checks at the beginning of the backend loading and that's all)
> but as the headers are private, it needs to be in-tree for that to work.

Well, good PA support would be nice, so you would be very welcome to
help with it :)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org - www.fsfe.org