Sad state of music playing on FC4

[Arthur Pemberton]

Paul Michael Reilly wrote:

>Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0501.nospam at arcor.de> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:20:40 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> > 
> > > prime time.  Back to xmms.  xmms handles the m3u as expected.  No
> > > problems.  But I sure like docking the xmms controls into the panel.
> > > Imagine my chagrin when I learn that FC4 and docking xmms controls are
> > > not happening (please, please tell me I'm wrong and what I missed and
> > > how to do it!).
> > 
> > Can you give some details or point to a bug report with a good problem
> > description of this in bugzilla.redhat.com?
>
>A googling came up with http://wwww.hellion.org.uk/xmms-status-plugin
>as working for KDE.  I then searched (yum) for the RPM and came up
>empty.  I also took note of a 2 year gap in News item entries on that
>web page, along with a disclaimer from the maintainer that he doesn't
>even use xmms any longer.  This is not the kind of active support I
>was hoping (and expecting) to find.  My conclusion (perhaps hasty) is
>that if one wants a panel applet for xmms similar to the one that
>existed prior to FC4 and now exists for Rhythmbox, then one will have
>to jump through hoops.  This is one of those cases where I'm really
>hoping somebody steps up and tells me that I'm wrong and points me to
>the kind of solution that is compelling for the Fedora maintainers to
>embrace.  But since xmms has been "thrown overboard" with FC4 I'm not
>holding my breath.
>
>I'd hazard a guess that xmms2 has a chance to bring xmms back into the
>boat with FC5 or FC6.  We'll see.
>
>-pmr
>
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Have you tried Amarok? It is a lovely app once you configure it.