On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:39:25PM +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:30, Sven Luther wrote: > > The upstream author is not so happy about the FIFO controlled stuff, > > since it sounds as if using quark is difficult. > > Right, the FIFO(implementation) is irrelevant for most users. > > > I was thinking of something along the lines of : > > > > Description: simple audio player which does not clutter the desktop > > In the Un*x-world, this is called a daemon, so why not call it thus? And what > is it that makes it simple? > > ...consisting of a daemon and several controller-frontends.
Mmm, yes, didn't think of that. It may be too long for the short description thought Description: simple audio player consisting of a daemon and several controller-frontends 88-20+1, or 69 characters. Also, it may make it sound more complex than it really is. > Advantages are: > > o It does not clutter the desktop with a GUI. > > > > o It is composed of a backend and a frontend, and thus survive the > > killing of the current X session, which is rather nice. > > o Can be controlled via command-line(can it?) or one of several GUIs Yep, there is a cli and a gnome notification-area frontend. > o Uses the wide capabilities of xine <link> for playing audio-files This would be better placed in the full description. Friendly, Sven Luther
