On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:50:56 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:20:40 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > > > > > prime time. Back to xmms. xmms handles the m3u as expected. No > > > problems. But I sure like docking the xmms controls into the panel. > > > Imagine my chagrin when I learn that FC4 and docking xmms controls are > > > not happening (please, please tell me I'm wrong and what I missed and > > > how to do it!). > > > > Can you give some details or point to a bug report with a good problem > > description of this in bugzilla.redhat.com? > > A googling came up with http://wwww.hellion.org.uk/xmms-status-plugin > as working for KDE. Aha. A separate plugin. > I then searched (yum) for the RPM and came up empty. > I also took note of a 2 year gap in News item entries on that > web page, along with a disclaimer from the maintainer that he doesn't > even use xmms any longer. This is not the kind of active support I > was hoping (and expecting) to find. Right. Could also be a good reason why nobody wanted to package this plugin for Fedora Extras yet. > My conclusion (perhaps hasty) is > that if one wants a panel applet for xmms similar to the one that > existed prior to FC4 and now exists for Rhythmbox, then one will have > to jump through hoops. This is one of those cases where I'm really > hoping somebody steps up and tells me that I'm wrong and points me to > the kind of solution that is compelling for the Fedora maintainers to > embrace. But since xmms has been "thrown overboard" with FC4 I'm not > holding my breath. XMMS has been moved into Fedora Extras, not "thrown overboard". Actually, in Fedora Extras the community has a much bigger opportunity to influence development of the XMMS package. About the only reason why I asked, to find out whether anything was wrong with the current package.
