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Work Continues

Pana is slow to update but I am still working on it and using it. I really urge you to use Clementine though, when stuck on MacOS I use it. They have active development and listen to users input. Personally I think it should be the default KDE player.

Unfortunately the odds of Pana ever working on QT4 or later is very slim. Some legacy device support will gradually stop working because of deprecation within KDE/QT. Despite my affection for Clementine , I still use Pana / Amarok 1.4 because nothing yet matches what Amarok 1 has.

Ways to help Pana if you’re interested:

  • Be a Ubuntu package tester, it’s the most popular platform.
  • Be a master QT programmer who can help fix the old QT3 code, at least help it hobble along.
  • Be a bug checker – there has been a minor increase in crash reports, if you love gdb you can help :)

If you have questions , email me or post on Launchpad. Bug reports are always welcome. Feature requests not so much…

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5 Responses to “Work Continues”

  1. shaddy says:
    20110316 at 11:36

    Hi,
    thanks for your word on Pana. It’s really great. Clementine is good too, but there’s a feature i really need that’s not implemeted : you can’t edit tracks BPM… whereas you can in Pana…

  2. Spartan says:
    20110322 at 13:43

    I just want to say that in order to be able to build pana on openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4 with GCC 4.5 i had to change on line of code on osd.h.
    From:
    void show( const QString &text, QImage newImage = QImage::QImage() );
    To:
    void show( const QString &text, QImage newImage = QImage() );

    Thanks for pana!

  3. admin says:
    20110322 at 19:52

    Thanks – this should be fixed in the bazaar branch.

  4. test says:
    20110428 at 13:58

    Hey, why don’t you just work with the Trinity team together? They also have a Amarok 1.4 fork.

  5. admin says:
    20110618 at 08:21

    Trinity looks promising but not very active? If they stick around I think their Amarok should outlast Pana but who knows.

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