Bug 58995

Summary:	outdated and conflicting code (timidity)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmidi	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Russell Miller <rmiller>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description David Walser 2003-05-26 17:25:14 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.2.2-5mdk) 
OS:          Linux

The timidity code used by kmidi is very outdated.  Upstream versions of TiMidity++ have greatly improved playback quality and efficiency in the last few years, and kmidi needs its timidity code updated so it can benefit from that.

Also, kdemultimedia installs a binary called timidity.  However, that binary is not timidity (it's some non-KDE version of kmidi, quite useless), and it conflicts with good TiMidity installations.  Please either remove or don't install that.

Comment 1 Russell Miller 2003-07-03 19:36:13 UTC

I can believe this.  So I'm accepting the bug.

Comment 2 David Walser 2003-07-03 19:50:52 UTC

One possible resolution to this bug would be to find a way to scrape together the kmidi 
GUI code and get it into a form where it could be submitted to TiMidity++, which 
already has hooks in place for such code. 
 
The hardest things would be distinguishing that code from the rest of the crap in the 
kmidi directory, and reworking it to hook it into current TiMidity++.

Comment 3 Russell Miller 2003-07-03 19:53:43 UTC

Subject: Re:  outdated and conflicting code (timidity)

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:50:53PM -0000, David Walser wrote:
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From luigiwalser@yahoo.com  2003-07-03 19:50 -------
> One possible resolution to this bug would be to find a way to scrape together the kmidi 
> GUI code and get it into a form where it could be submitted to TiMidity++, which 
> already has hooks in place for such code. 
>  
> The hardest things would be distinguishing that code from the rest of the crap in the 
> kmidi directory, and reworking it to hook it into current TiMidity++.

It's not a bad idea, but I think I will hold off on that until I have a
better idea of what's needed.

--Russell

Comment 4 Russell Miller 2003-07-06 06:50:33 UTC

Bug #39574 will be resolved by the same action that will resolve this bug, and because of 
that, both bugs are equally critical.  So I am marking this bug as a duplicate.  Please track 
#39574 if you wish to follow progress further. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39574 ***