On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 18:32, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:23:10PM -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
But I still am not a fan of the 'shuffle' that it does...Tis open source, what should shuffle do that it does not?
It's called IMMS; it's really good, even though it uses some other SQL system where I'd prefer Mysql, 'cause I'm used to it, and can reference it from PHP. While I can fake my way around in PHP, I'm no C programmer; I was merely a newbie in 1989. (!)
There's a similar situation with Galeon & Firefox; Galeon, while it has every feature I've ever needed and a couple more, isn't as modular and (from what real programmers tell me) is hard to develop with, where Firefox represents a re-write using all Gnome-specific stuff (whatever that amounts to). The idea is that Firefox is more portable across platforms, so it makes a better strategic choice.
Now, I'd love to live in a world where XMMS and Galeon are the only choices, but it looks like 'the herd' is headed elsewhere. I suppose I'll just get used to the idea.
See also: Xosview versus Gkrellm.