Fwd: Removing amarok

[Achim Bohnet]

On Samstag, 16. September 2017 06:43:07 CEST Michael Devendra Lutynski wrote:
> Hello Kubuntu Devs,
> 
> To add to this discussion... when I install Kubuntu on friends' and
> clients' machines, who are just average people wanting a stress-free
> computing experience, I remove Amarok and put in something that feels more
> intuitive to them.
> 
> Lately, I've been putting on Musique <http://flavio.tordini.org/musique>
> (sadly it's Qt4), but more promisingly Yarock
> <http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/>, a Qt5 app that bills itself as a
> "Modern and elegant linux music player", and everyone seems to "get it".
> It's quite feature-full and looks good too.

No development activity since October 2016.  That's not a good sign :-(

Achim
> 
> My one regret is that it's not in Debian/Ubuntu's repos nor do I know who
> to poke to get it added, as I think it'd be a great fit for Kubuntu until
> the new KDE-specific music player comes of age. I add it via PPA's.
> 
> ~Michael
> 
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ah, right. Bummer.
> >
> > On 09/15/2017 12:24 PM, Aaron Honeycutt wrote:
> >
> >> Clementine is also Qt4.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 09/15/2017 12:38 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Right now, Cantata seemed like the best choice, although I agree
> >>>     with you that it is less than desirable. There is a new player now
> >>>     called "Babe" (hopefully soon to be renamed) which has not yet has
> >>>     its first release. When it is, we will re-assess. We didn't want
> >>>     to release 17.10 with no music player, and we couldn't justify
> >>>     Amarok. For 18.04 we hope there will be better options.
> >>> Has there been any discussion of replacing Amarok with Clementine, which
> >>> has most of the features and seems to be in better shape as a project. It's
> >>> not very active, but it's not dead, seemingly. - Mitch Golden
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