[Mageia-dev] Drop kaffeine from repos?

[Florian Hubold]

Am 06.03.2012 16:54, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
> 06.03.2012 17:12, Oliver Burger kirjoitti:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently thinking about dropping kaffeine from the repositories for Mga2.
>> The reason is some upstream bug - reported as #1934 in Mageia bugzilla
>> and in several other distributions as well without any solution
>> upstream.
>> So kaffeine is rather instable right now and there seems not to be a
>> real active development on it. In addition, there are many good
>> alternatives for kaffeine, e.g. the different mplayer guis or vlc.
>>
>> Any opinions on it?
> Kaffeine has superior DVB support which works out-of-the-box (i.e.
> without manual command-line tinkering, just scan for channels via the
> GUI), that e.g. MPlayer GUIs or VLC do not have.
>
I've not used kaffeine since a long time, i prefer me-tv, it's just
as easy to use, maybe even easier and i like the embedded EPG
shown in windowed mode. It's also actively developed.