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Is Kaffiene 0.5 better than Kaffiene 0.4.3 |
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msimplay Apprentice
Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:44 am Post subject: Kaffiene 0.4.3 VS Kaffiene 0.5 Opinions please |
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Hmm it seems to me that the new 0.5 rewrite doesn't have all the functionality of the old frontend 0.4.3
I wanted to watch a dvd which was fine until i wanted to change the aspect ratio and also the keyboard shortcuts have changed
could no longer press Just 'F' to go into full screen mode
I also found that i couldn't use the links to various devices like
Videocd , DVD , Audiocd at all via the main menu i had to use the drop down
I don't know if this meant to be an improvement but for me it doesn't work so well but i'd like to hear other peoples opinions on this
I just went and reverted back to 0.4.3 while i could |
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baeksu l33t
Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 609 Location: Seoul, Korea
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Same here. I hated 0.5 changes. Why on earth would they break the old shortcuts? That is just stupid.
What´s more I don´t like the way Kaffeine now starts with the stupid front page. This means you have to go through extra clicks just to see your videos.
Methinks they´ve taken a page from the Microsoft gui-manual.
I also reverted back to 0.43 as fast as I could. _________________ Gnome:
1. A legendary being.
2. A never ending quest to make unix friendly to people who don't want unix and excruciating for those that do. |
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Epyon l33t
Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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0.50 crashes more often on my computer. The UI changes suck. I don't know what they were thinking. |
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minhtang Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 76
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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The key shortcut changed since Kaffeine now attempts to be more KDE like, and most of those shortcuts are default shortcuts for KDE like full window is Ctrl-Shift-F ... _________________ Three minutes of thought would suffice to find this out. But then, thought is irksome, and three minutes is a rather long time.
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msimplay Apprentice
Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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minhtang wrote: | The key shortcut changed since Kaffeine now attempts to be more KDE like, and most of those shortcuts are default shortcuts for KDE like full window is Ctrl-Shift-F ... |
yes but its no good
point to play is why fix something when its not broke
the way it works now it seems to have become buggy in the new release
i could agree on it having more support for streaming for example the new release has rudimentary support for SMIL files but the overall player isnt as good as it used to be |
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soda_popstar Apprentice
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 177
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:46 am Post subject: |
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I am quite disappointed with 0.5 as well. The interface is extremely cluttered now and it's hard to strip out all the toolbars without having them come back the next time I start it up. Also, I liked how I could double-click another video in Konqueror and have it replace the current running video. Now, it queues it up to be the next played video instead. I couldn't find a way to configure it to have the old behaviour either. In the end, I found out that Totem has been improving, so I have switched over. |
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snakattak3 Guru
Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 468 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:11 am Post subject: |
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I too hate the new interface. Am using 4.3b right now, till another video program comes out that can compare. _________________ Ban Reality TV!
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QV n00b
Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 54
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:52 am Post subject: |
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Emphatic NO.
I'm still using 0.4.3b and have 0.5 in my package.mask -- I tried 0.5 for a bit and hated it with a passion. Kaffiene 0.4 was the first video player I've used that I really loved using as opposed to only tolerating it, and it saddens me that the developer abandoned it for the piece of garbage that is 0.5. |
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