QMD on linux?

[L3yArT]

Hello all, i am a linux user and sometimes i use windows, only for work problem cause i don't like this os very much. But i like your player really a lot... What about a linux distro? I am a programmer and i can help a bit with the development... It' only a suggestion but i think that Quintessential player is the best one of every time... even better than XMMS, the best player for linux.

[biggman15]

A guide to Using QCD on linux is here if your interested....
http://www.quinnware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3386

[philipptr]

... even better than XMMS, the best player for linux.
are you kidding? what about amarok?

[biggman15]

are you kidding? what about amarok?
I wanted to ask the same thing..... But figured it was probably like the winamp/sonique wars of the past....

[idefiXX]

A guide to Using QCD on linux is here if your interested.... http://www.quinnware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3386

this is a guide for using it with wine, which is very copmlicated (i tried it for myself and the installation didn't even work). he says :
I am a programmer and i can help a bit with the development
so, why not developping qmp for linux ?? i know, it is said already in this forum that this won't happen, but now there is someone who wants to help and seems to know linux-development quite well...
i am not a linux expert, nor a developper, but this sounds good to me !! :knocked-o :knocked-o

[noodles]

A guide to Using QCD on linux is here if your interested.... http://www.quinnware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3386

this is a guide for using it with wine, which is very copmlicated (i tried it for myself and the installation didn't even work). he says :
I am a programmer and i can help a bit with the development
so, why not developping qmp for linux ?? i know, it is said already in this forum that this won't happen, but now there is someone who wants to help and seems to know linux-development quite well...
i am not a linux expert, nor a developper, but this sounds good to me !! :knocked-o :knocked-o

Paul has repeatedly said that he's not going to put QMP on Linux. And I believe he has no intention to open up the source to other developers. My suggestion for Linux is to use Rhythmbox. It doesn't have the great fancy stuff, but it works quite well and has a nice library. It's very similar to iTunes.

[acozz]

Paul's reasoning was very simple: he wrote QMP to learn Windows programming, so he never separated the Windows code from the other code. Porting to Linux would require a massive rewrite (if you think about the scale QMP has become, I'd imagine it is very large by now). And how would you write a plugin that would work on both versions? I don't think you could since plugins sometimes do OS specific things.

[philipptr]

Paul's reasoning was very simple: he wrote QMP to learn Windows programming, so he never separated the Windows code from the other code. Porting to Linux would require a massive rewrite (if you think about the scale QMP has become, I'd imagine it is very large by now). And how would you write a plugin that would work on both versions? I don't think you could since plugins sometimes do OS specific things.
about the plug in thing: afaik audacity uses a linux plugin system on linux and another one on windows, which is imo okay

[idefiXX]

ok, i understand the thing with the plugins.. :disappoin :disappoin

My suggestion for Linux is to use Rhythmbox.

no, thanks, i am a kde user and kde has it's own library player (juk) which looks pretty the same to me. i use xmms instead...

[acozz]

about the plug in thing: afaik audacity uses a linux plugin system on linux and another one on windows, which is imo okay
But then you would have people writing Windows plugins that wouldn't get a Linux port and vice versa. Not everyone knows both Windows and X-Windows programming.