grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 01/26/2005 11:30 AM, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net (Nicolas Mailhot) writes:
> 
> 
>>>>xmms uses gtk1 and doesn't seem to be needed; should it be removed?
>>>
>>>No, there is no other nice-looking mp3/ogg/... player in FC.
>>
>>...
>>The controls are badly organised
> 
> what would be the alternatives? Some Gnome UI crap where half of the
> important options can be configured with regedit only?
> 
> BMP looks good on the first glance (the screenshots); I just hope that
> it is a 1:1 gtk2 rewrite of xmms, and not something which tries to bring
> Gnome2 ideas into it (like galeon 1.3 vs. 1.2)...

You can get BMP from newrpms repository:

bmp
bmp-mp3
bmp-extra-plugins

Apparently BMP is a fork of xmms and it feels like in many ways. Hint: 
do not try to run it when xmms is running -- it won't start. Quit xmms 
first.

Regards,
Dariusz