Thread: [Canola] Canola Beta 9 : Bug reports, Feedback, Suggestions
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anpaza is offline anpaza
2008-05-24 , 20:56
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#82
Originally Posted by handful View Post
Well this was really a recurring issue, and we relied on the users sending us files to solve it, but we didn have too much of them. Also it seems that the port of python have problems still with some encondings, so we are looking even outside of canola how to solve it.
I already said everything I know about the problem in this ticket:

https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/ind...=125&atid=1989

If somebody needs more info, just ask in the ticket...

Originally Posted by handful View Post
The more info we add the more cluttered the UI gets, and thats (the cluttler) something that is the basic no-go of canola.
Sure, I understand this and agree, that's why I suggested a hidden configure option (which basically won't be seen at all by regular users, but could be used, for example, by some plug-in -- so, if user installs the plugin, he knows what he's doing).

Originally Posted by handful View Post
Here you got to the point we do wanted to support everyone, but it just not possible, and so a lot of other media players support it, so the power users were covered
Well, every mp3 player even with a 120x40 screen usually supports displaying the year and track number :-) And even ancient CD players display the track number, so I think this is not something to scare the Regular Joe User.

Originally Posted by handful View Post
And I have personally confirmed with the Maintainers of gstreamer for the device within the multimedia team. Mplayer is even worse in this matter.
Well, look at MPD - it works in gapless mode even on Maemo, although the sound is full of clicks for some reason, at least for me.

But I generally agree, sound subsystem on N8xx is very messy... I wish it would use the normal ALSA architecture, without any emulations and quirks.