From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: BMP is a multimedia player that currently uses a skinned user interface based on Winamp 2.x skins. It is based on XMMS. XMMS is a GTK1 application and looks very out of place on the gnome desktop. BMP is a GTK2 port of XMMS that uses the same WinAmp skins with a mostly unchanged user experience. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xmms-1.2.10-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC3 2. Run xmms 3. Be horrified at the GTK1 engine and how it looks different to all the other *new* stuff. Actual Results: Saw a GTK1 interface which I knew how to use Expected Results: Saw a GTK2 interface which I knew how to use Additional info: http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/BMP_Homepage http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/Screenshots Also, bmp decouples the mp3 plugin from the application, so no worries about patching to remove MP3.
BeepMP with the Bluecurve theme and some font-settings configured in a way that it looks like a default xmms setup. http://www.freax.be/files/beepmp-screenshot.png
Why not just use e.g. totem or HelixPlayer instead?
Totem is in my mind for video, the playlist is wrong for lots of files, and it's too big. I want something (of a few pixels) to dock in the top right of my window. HelixPlayer isn't too bad but suffers the same problems as totem - it's too generic. I want an WinAMP style player (which I've used for 5+ years on windows, and then 5+ years on linux) that I'm comfortable with. I'm sure lots of users will agree. bmp seems almost like an "update" to xmms (with GTK2, but not many other changes), and when everything else is GTK2 is seems a shame not to make the transistion.
Can you elaborate on how the playlist is wrong for lots of files? As for the size - what if we added a music control to the panel?
A panel control would be an excellent idea. I don't like the idea of switching to a whole new window just to click >> on totem. Perhaps if totem was to show the playlist automatically when I run an m3u/pls file that would be a step in the right direction... It's unlikly by playing a m3u file I want to listen to the album one song at a time, for every song. Finding the option for "show playlist" takes two more clicks than I want.
I would personally stick to XMMS until they finally put the Queue button back in the jump-to dialog. i dont like to cut a track in the middle, and prefer the player to complete the current track before playing the next one, so the queue function is one of my most appreciated. also, the jump-to in BMP is painfully slow with a lot of files on the playlist (i often have more then 5000 on it), while XMMS is lightning fast with resorting the list, no matter how many files there are. i have also some other issues with BMP, but they are fairly small compared to this one (like skinning issues on the playlist and some plugins). until they fix these issues, i stick with XMMS, and I wouldnt recommend switching to a player that hasnt even left beta stage to be included as a replacement to a player that just works. i would love to see XMMS upgraded to GTK2, cause you are right, GTK1 sure looks outdated, but BMP just isnt ready yet.
I'm korean. Sorry my poor english. I can't see xmms. because, xmms can't display korean. such "ì¬ë" and also can't display chinese or japanese. such "ç±" or "ãã" xmms builded GTK1. So don't support UTF-8. bmp(beep-media-player) builded GTK2. The player support UTF-8. So I agree. And many asian agree this idea.
I second the notion of getting bmp into the main stream. Mike
xmms has move to extras. Closing this bug. If you want to see bmp get into extras the best way is to become a maintainer for it or find somone who is willing to do it.