[arch-general] Add "phonon-xine" to KDE deps?

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 11.08.2009 09:38, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:22:34 Allan McRae wrote:
>   
>>> Thirded :) I am still missing notification sounds from kopete though. And
>>> now I don't have any default device in system settings -> multimedia ->
>>> audio output -> *
>>>       
>> Did you all install the needed gstreamer plugins for the files you
>> wanted to play?
>>     
>
> Yes I think. 
>
> $ pacman -Qs gstreamer
> local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.23-1
>     GStreamer Multimedia Framework
> local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.23-1
>     GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
> local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.23-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
>     GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
>
> However doing pacman -Ss gstreamer isn't exactly friendly. What exactly good, 
> bad and ugly plugins mean? Do I need ffmpeg plugins for mp3?
>
> FWIW, can we just default to xine backend? I don't know much about either of 
> them but one of them got sound and other one didn't. I hope thats not a too-
> stupid of a request.
>
>   
I think the request is good. Since I'm just a lowly Arch user, could any
of the KDE package maintainers/Arch devs have a say here? From the
sounds of it, it appears as though Phonon is still flawed to an extent
that it shouldn't be the default.