Comments on: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

By: Three things Phoronix couldn’t measure « Motho ke motho ka botho

Three things Phoronix couldn’t measure « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:06:16 +0000

[...] to install an esoteric addon to xmms, you’ll have to go it alone — even more so because Ubuntu hasn’t offered xmms for years now. Having a script-based system that allows you to confidently build software — and customize [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:37:33 +0000

Hah! I lol’d.

By: 2wit

2wit — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:28:25 +0000

I experienced a similar reaction when I resumed a long-abandoned (due to drive problems) Debian unstable installation recently and found I couldn’t install xmms. I denied, frantically hunting thru apt-cache for what I knew must be there. I raged, at the monstrous, inconceivable fact that what I was looking for, yearning for, was gone. I bargained, trying out every available substitute. Depression set in as I realised no substitute would do.

I no longer want to play music on my pc. This, apparently, is a part of the acceptance phase known as ‘resignation with depressive overtones’.

I can never go back to being my old self again. I have scars, deep scars. But, in time, I may go on to live a normal and happy life.

Damn you, xmms! Damn you to hell! Off you go then, but know this. You’ll be dragging behind you the silent reproach of a million tear-stained eyes, if not more.

Kubler-Ross, you beauty! . . . no no i’m ok, really . . .
i feel . . . somehow lighter . . . at peace . . .

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

By: Building Beaver 0.2.7 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Building Beaver 0.2.7 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:35:42 +0000

[...] Functionwise it has a little more depth than gtkedit, but not quite as much as, say, OpenOffice. It’s a shame it’s not part of the Ubuntu repos (or Debian, for that matter), although I see where it has been terrifically dormant, or at least stagnant for a few years. And of course, if somebody sits too long without moving, they get omitted. [...]

By: More fun GTK1.2 stuff « Motho ke motho ka botho

More fun GTK1.2 stuff « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:39:19 +0000

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By: tel93

tel93 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:38:58 +0000

I wanted to install it on my K6-2 366 running Debian Lenny. I had previously been using CMus. I was pretty disappointed when it was gone
I just used the Etch package

By: semko

semko — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:00:47 +0000

Man it does the work it should, especially on a machine with low resources.
I found this version “xmms_1.2.11-1_i386.deb” on this site “http://www.ungab.com/content/xmms-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron”. It needs some dependencies to work on my machine (runs CrunchBang Linux ) but that’s no problem, I can download them from hardy repos.
Hope it helps someone.

And by the way, nice blog.

Pozdravi iz Bosne. = Greetings from Bosnia.

By: Onyros

Onyros — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:49:43 +0000

I completely agree with you on this one. I still use XMMS, and I don’t even think that it looks bad due to being a GTK 1 app. It’s skinnable! And some of the skins look really, really good, like the Almond set (deep blue is gorgeous).

Yeah, the dialogs may not “shine”, but the app’s purpose is to play music, not to have pretty dialogs. After having it configured, the only time I see the GTK 1 dialogs is when I press “j” (which triggers one of the best and fastest realtime playlist searches in any player).

I considered going the Audacious way, but there was nothing Audacious could bring (me) that made me dump XMMS. And as I also need to use the equalizer and can generally get better results through XMMS’ equalizer than Audacious’… XMMS stuck. You can compare it with the all too well known Winamp presets: just make sure you drop around 10.0 db on the pre-amp in XMMS (otherwise sound output will get distorted) and you’ll know what I mean. And I won’t even get started with resource usage. XMMS can beat many if not most CLI music apps.

Then again, I keep using a few GTK 1 apps, because I just prefer them, like emelfm over emelfm2 – if only the browser would display UTF-8 properly it would be irreplaceable; the old GTK 1 Beaver (editor) over the new GTK 2 version or over other editors, etc.

It’s not like, all of a sudden, XMMS lost its purpose or stopped working. It its mostly unmaintained, but it… just works. And pretty well for most people, if I may add.

Even so, I just don’t care. As long as it’s compilable, I’ll keep on using it.

By: devnet

devnet — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:00:04 +0000

PCLinuxOS has it in the repos…I don’t see it coming out anytime soon

By: Cosay Nold

Cosay Nold — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:22:04 +0000

Sometimes, when I need a newer version or a customized version of a program, what I do is install all of the dependencies via Pacman and then try to build the program myself. Usually it works for me. You could probably do the same for XMMS.