Have to answer as a noatun/kde/arts freak... On Thursday 12 June 2003 22:33, daniel wrote: > after kde3.1 came out, i decided that i might as well try out noatun again > (hated it before, so i went back to xmms). and while it crashed *less* > than it had before, the usability was still off...
Really? > xmms is so simple, > ctrl+f1 to get to its desktop, "b" to skip the song. noatun wasn't > intuative at all and didn't have any shortcut keys like that. what's more, Ctrl+Fx goes to the xth Desktop. Still you have to focus the right application (unless you have only xmms on that desktop). If you load the plugin keyz (shipped with noatun) you have global shortcuts => Controlling noatun without even moving the hands towards the mouse or switching desktops. Just press Ctrl+Alt+-> for the next song. I still think its more intuitive than xmms/winamp. And you don't need to install an extra package if you want to control your noatun from the systray. > the program's inability to load song data from all the songs in the > playlist without "chunking" the sound is just dumb. Did you set your aRts to have realtimepriority? Otherwise you will have clicks. But you would get these two if xmms worked like aRts... > and xmms supports winamp skins (very cool) so i'm stickin' with that noatun supports winamp skins too... > "artsdsp xmms" option mentioned on this thread... it worked like a charm. Good. One more disadvantage of xmms: You are stuck with one type of Playlist where you select the files you want to hear. I am currently using the hayes-playlist in noatun where I see my folders and files in a tree and can select which I want to hear. What happens in xmms if you insert a whole dir, delete one file and decide later on you want to hear this song? You have to find all files from that dir and readd the dir or readd the file you want. In hayes you only have to select the file... Thats what I call intuitive... Arnold -- Get my public-key from pgp.mit.edu or pgp.uni-mainz.de --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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