On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:30, Sven Luther wrote: > The upstream author is not so happy about the FIFO controlled stuff, > since it sounds as if using quark is difficult.
Right, the FIFO(implementation) is irrelevant for most users. > I was thinking of something along the lines of : > > Description: simple audio player which does not clutter the desktop In the Un*x-world, this is called a daemon, so why not call it thus? And what is it that makes it simple? ...consisting of a daemon and several controller-frontends. Advantages are: > o It does not clutter the desktop with a GUI. > > o It is composed of a backend and a frontend, and thus survive the > killing of the current X session, which is rather nice. o Can be controlled via command-line(can it?) or one of several GUIs o Uses the wide capabilities of xine <link> for playing audio-files hth Uli
