Today i updated xmms-scrobbler with 2 patches from the Debian maintainer and xmms-wma with a patch made by eradicator and modified by me. Next week i plan to release xmms-1.2.10-gentoo-patches-2.3.1 with new patches. One that set gentoo-ice the default skin (to clean the ebuild) and a few patches from upstream to close bugs related to flac. Maybe i will add a few more skins to xmms-themes package for that i will look this week for a few cool skins to add to this package. It’s was nice if somebody saves me time and point me a few good looking skins for xmms(specially related to gentoo) and mail me.
If you have some patch you think it’s good for xmms feel free to open a bug assigned to me and i will commit after i review the patch. About xmms2 next week i will probably begin to work on it and in a few frontends to test,test and test before commit to portage.
This week again don’t expect too much from me(again) because i have 2 tests at university and a birthday party.
I’d like to say amd64 team have two new ATs and their nicks are KristinG and cokehabit congrats both.
Yesterday i finally finish install e17 and i must say i’m impressed. It looks really great and feels like a new desktop for me. Maybe i will switch from gnome to e17 soon.
Be careful about the default gentoo-ice skin, I’m pretty sure people will bitch about it; “keeping as close to upstream as possible” and “gentoo doesn’t do branding by default” comes to mind 😉
Hello Simon i will consider this but remember if you look to our xmms you will see it’s full of patches to fix older bugs that the upstream doesn’t handle. I think that skin is a reflex of our community and i think our users like it. I have a few troubles because the “vanilla” xmms is outdated and for now i plan to fix a few bugs then move to xmms2. There are a couple of bugs that are hard to fix but it’s what i tell to users “if xmms doesn’t work fine for you i’m sorry but try another app.” this is sad but true, the upstream is moving to develop xmms2 and almost stop to develop xmms1.