Say, ya know what really whips the llama’s ass? Winamp.
Ya know what whips the llama’s ass HTML5 Web 2.0 style? Winamp in a web page.
(Click the little circular icon in the extreme top left of the app to open a file. You can play music files from your own computer in this thing. It works, but not in IE, because IE doesn’t have the audio API. Everything else does, though.)
Of course, to me, this is just an XMMS look-alike with a weird default skin. But XMMS is gone and this still lives.
Really ? I was going though Yast less than 10 minutes ago, stocking up on a new OpenSUSE installation and I deliberately turned away from XMMS and her hundreds of add-ons, saving it maybe for another time.
I’m pretty sure that was XMMS2, as the original XMMS was dropped from the Ubuntu repos a long time ago.
The last release of XMMS was in 2007, and it relies on the obsolete GTK+ 1.x toolkit, so you can imagine distro makers would be less than enthused to keep carrying it.
Got a new laptop a week ago and eventually realized I left Winamp off the “must install” list. Added it two days ago. Boy, the sweet sound of an mp3 through laptop speakers is sweet … not!
Much better thru )wired) earphones. So now I have to dig out my bluetooth ones, charge 'em, etc.
Of course the “Winamp beats …” was the first real sound my laptop ever made.
Cool. I haven’t seen Winamp in a long time.
Maybe, although I’m sure I wouldn’t tell the difference 'twixt 1 and 2. However Linux distributions — despite fucking up new releases with **change for the sake of change **as badly as Firefox and WordPress [ Plus in Suse Leap 42.3’s case, with no more Gecko, adopting the current Nazi Minimalist Fat Slab with more Black ] — display a ‘for the sake of old times’ tenderness in keeping elderly senile veterans in their repos; that could crash a modern computer if run. Particularly in Games. Games were never great for Linux, but many of the older ones make DOS games look sophisticated.
Then I always mistrusted Gnome anyway.
Eh, one person’s “change for the sake of change” is another’s “this fixes a long-standing issue”, and for every change that gets made, there’s another distro which does it differently and/or a way to undo the change in the same distro.
Yeah…. For years now I stuck with Firefox or Icecat on the KDE frame for saving images because that was the only way of having self-put directories on the sidebar of the save menu. And because when one went to one of these the main panel immediately focused on that directory in the higher directory. Making it quick to go to the ones nearest.
My Chibi directory has 14062 sub-directories.
Now the main panel immediately goes to the top of the higher directory. What long-standing issue did that fix ?
Similarly, I have 20 virtual desktops. Each has always had the ability to have it’s own Wallpaper, which showed inter alia which one one was using.
Now, with Plasma 5 everyone has the identical wallpaper. * There is a fix but it involves going to Git, which most users won’t know about. Wallpaperswitch.
I’ve never used KDE *Activities, *which just seem otiose and unneeded, and the idiots who made this loss of functionality ought to realise users would happily junk gimmicky Plasma, Activities and Widgets just to have a running system.
And as usual for Suse, the fonts just get worse with each version…
** The KDE devs have said that enabling this is too difficult, and suggest the “activities” function to mitigate this.
That won’t wash, as activities do not provide the same functionality as different wallpapers and separate widgets on each virtual desktop.
*But this regression could be a deal breaker for me
*Tux Machines 2015 Aug