Fwd: Removing amarok

[Michael Devendra Lutynski]

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 <mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
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 <mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
>> 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
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~Michael
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