[kde-doc-english] Wrong units in kmid documentation

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:21:28 +0300, Freek de Kruijf  
<f.de.kruijf at gmail.com>:

> On donderdag 31 mei 2012 17:02:54 Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
>> написане Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:56 +0300, Freek de Kruijf
>>
>> <f.de.kruijf at gmail.com>:
>> > In trunk docmessages/extragear-multimedia/kmid.pot message #196 reads:
>> >
>> > A typical &MIDI; file weights around 50 Kb. while the typical mp3
>> > filesize
>> > is 4 Mb. And with a good synthesizer device, you can get a comparable
>> > sound
>> > quality. Even more, with a &MIDI; file, you can change individual
>> > instruments, change the velocity of a song, &etc; so you have more
>> > overall
>> > control.
>> >
>> > Kb should be KB and Mb should be MB
>> > Furthermore weights should be contains.
>>
>> Fixed. Thanks.
>>
>> However KMid is now unmaintained [1], so it is not clear when the update
>> will be released.
>>
>> [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-extra-gear&m=133046054208309&w=2
>
> KMid uses either timidity or fluidsynth, if a soft synth is needed.  
> Normally
> timidity has a very limited amount of instruments. Initializing  
> fluidsynth in
> KMid, it has a pointer to a file /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2  
> which is
> not present in my distribution. It is available on the Internet in a zip  
> file,
> which does not contain any license, however I found a remark that it is
> available with a license something like LGPL. I don't know if fluidsynth  
> and
> timidity are part of KDE. If so, I wonder if it is possible to include
> FluidR3_GM.sf2 also. In that case the configuration file of timidity  
> should
> also contain a reference to this sf2 file.

This must be a packaging issue. The file is packaged at least for Fedora  
[1]

[1]  
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17653573/dir/rawhide/com/fluid-soundfont-gm-3.1-7.fc17.noarch.rpm.html