Re: Have pragha replace quodlibet? (was Re: [spin-kickstarts] xfce: Drop quodlibet for now until we can sort out dep issues.)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:41:38 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Am Freitag, den 10.02.2012, 17:09 +0000 schrieb Kevin Fenzi:
>  > commit 6690f0db6e5e48403122f8fda9a9fefbd1f9b640
>  > Author: Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt;
>  > Date:   Fri Feb 10 10:08:40 2012 -0700
>  > 
>  >     xfce: Drop quodlibet for now until we can sort out dep issues.
>  
>  How about replacing quodlibet with pragha?
>  
>  I know pragha is not as powerful as quodlibet, e.g. it doesn't do
>  internet radio or and come with a standalone tagging application, but
>  there are some things I like about it:
>        * It's written in C and has a very lightweight memory footprint
>          (much unlike quodlibet, which is written in python).
>        * It's using GStreamer now, so it can be easily extended with
>          other codecs.
>        * It perfectly integrated with Xfce: Take a look at the settings
>          dialog and you'll see what I mean. It now even builds against
>          exo and supports saving playlists with the Xfce session.
>        * It supports hotkeys out of the box, we could drop the patches
>  we have for quodlibet in libxfceui4.
>        * It just reached 1.0.
>  
>  What do you guys think? Is it mature enough? Can it compete with
>  quodlibet 
I'm for it, lets do it. ;) 

kevin