On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:26 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > and they use the
> > commercial Gracenote CDDB
> > service. I refuse to support FreeDB as it's data is
> > utter pants.
>
> Is that the service set in the CD Database preferences
> tool?
>
> This is an issue I've been meaning to raise after I
> noticed it during the UI review.
>
> We have a preferences tool that claims to set CD
> database preferences system-wide.
> But very few audio apps use it -- someone said only
> the CD player app does.
>
> So we're basically misleading the user, and we have a
> largely useless prefs tool.
>
> I don't know enough about the subject to have an
> opinion on the solution, but we should do one of:
> a) remove the prefs tool completely
> b) fix it so it's not pants and get all relevant apps
> to use it
>
> Leaving it as it is makes *us* look pants :(
There are plans to remove gnome-cd, which would almost certainly lead to
the CDDB library and thus that capplet being removed, as gnome-cd is
indeed the only program using it.
Ross
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