grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 01/25/2005 10:34 PM, Peter Backlund wrote:
> tis 2005-01-25 klockan 23:03 +0100 skrev Casper Pedersen:
> 
>>>I think xmms is ugly, no matter what theme you put on it. RhythmBox is
>>>at least organized in a nice way.
>>
>>Depends on how you see it; xmms is nice, small, and might not be pretty, 
>>but it works. RythmBox is big and slow to use with very large 
>>collections of files, but it is pretty.

>>I for example would not be happy to loose Grip and xmms, but then again, 
>>I might be old fasion:-)

+1


> For a Gtk2 replacement of xmms, take a look at Beep Media Player: 


> mp3 subpackage could be created if it's decided that it replaces xmms,
> or is included in Extras. It even uses the Bluecurve xmms skin :-)

Unfortunately it does not have "double size" feature of xmms. This makes 
it problematic for around 100dpi screens (1600x1200 at 20" or 
1280x1024 at 17") My case exactly :(

Regards,
Dariusz