[Pkg-kde-extras] Re: kmplayer package review

koos vriezen koos.vriezen at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 06:25:04 UTC 2006


2006/4/26, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:23:24PM +0200, koos vriezen wrote:
> > Finallizing this thread, I've now updated to the stable 0.9.2
> > (http://kmplayer.kde.org/pkgs/kmplayer-0.9.2.tar.bz2). I've removed
> > the debian directory, and will so for all future stable releases. For
> > unstable future releases I think it might make sense to use the one
> > that's in debian (or will be).
> > This release has also the translations packaged.
>
> You may be pleased to know that kmplayer moved into Ubuntu main
> yesterday and we'll use the konqueror plugin as default in Kubuntu.

That is nice to hear.
(Not so) btw, I've talked with Fathi some time ago about the mimetype
for WMP plugins:
> Oh, I forgot to mention the 'application/x-mplayer2' issue. There was
> in the past a conflict between kaffeine and kmplayer, both shipping
> this mimetype. For that reason I'ved removed it for debian packages.
> However in case one hasn't got kaffeine installed, this mime is
> unsupported, and lots of websites w/ video break.

Even worse is that besides being used alot, it's one of the formats
that work mostly out-of-the-box, ie. doesn't need win32 codecs to be
installed.
One sollution might be to move this .desktop file to kdelibs.

Koos


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