Yes, I like Yarock too--it seems to be well written. No, I don't know the developer, though I imagine he should hear from me as he needs to know there are fans for his labor of love.
Michael On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Clive Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > I had never heard of Yarock so decided to throw it into some packaging and > take a look. It is rather snappy on my artful install and I kinda like > it. Seems to use VLC as the back-end, but grabs info on songs like > Amarok. Do you know the developer? > > For anyone who wants a noisy, it's in my PPA - https://launchpad.net/~ > clivejo/+archive/ubuntu/yarock > > On 16 September 2017 at 05:43, Michael Devendra Lutynski < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Kubuntu Devs, >> >> To add to this discussion... when I install Kubuntu on friends' and >> clients' machines, who are just average people wanting a stress-free >> computing experience, I remove Amarok and put in something that feels more >> intuitive to them. >> >> Lately, I've been putting on Musique <http://flavio.tordini.org/musique> >> (sadly it's Qt4), but more promisingly Yarock >> <http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/>, a Qt5 app that bills itself as a >> "Modern and elegant linux music player", and everyone seems to "get it". >> It's quite feature-full and looks good too. >> >> My one regret is that it's not in Debian/Ubuntu's repos nor do I know who >> to poke to get it added, as I think it'd be a great fit for Kubuntu until >> the new KDE-specific music player comes of age. I add it via PPA's. >> >> ~Michael >> >> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Mitch Golden <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Ah, right. Bummer. >>> >>> On 09/15/2017 12:24 PM, Aaron Honeycutt wrote: >>> >>>> Clementine is also Qt4. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mitch Golden <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 09/15/2017 12:38 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Right now, Cantata seemed like the best choice, although I agree >>>>> with you that it is less than desirable. There is a new player now >>>>> called "Babe" (hopefully soon to be renamed) which has not yet has >>>>> its first release. When it is, we will re-assess. We didn't want >>>>> to release 17.10 with no music player, and we couldn't justify >>>>> Amarok. For 18.04 we hope there will be better options. >>>>> Has there been any discussion of replacing Amarok with Clementine, >>>>> which has most of the features and seems to be in better shape as a >>>>> project. It's not very active, but it's not dead, seemingly. - Mitch >>>>> Golden >>>>> -- >>>>> kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] <mailto: >>>>> [email protected]> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> kubuntu-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >>> an/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ~Michael >> >> >> -- >> kubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >> an/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >> >> > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > > -- ~Michael
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