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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 22 for Linux => Topic started by: geier22 on November 07, 2016, 04:59:27 am
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After a long time, I must point out that Mini-View has never worked in KDE. KDE is a standard interface with which MC should work as well. I can not understand that no one is interested in all versions. MiniView works well in Mate, Cinnamon and Xfce - why not in KDE (KDE 4 and Plasma). Here's another screeenshot:
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Well, MC is developed on Debian - which is the official platform it supports. As far as I know, GNOME is still the default desktop environment in Debian (though, I think they've considered/toyed with changing to Xfce). MATE/Cinnamon are based on GNOME and Unity is a graphical shell for GNOME, so this is likely why they work so well on unsupported OSes/DEs.
Running MC on other platforms other than Debian is more-or-less unsupported. The same is likely about desktop environments outside of GNOME as well.
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Running MC on other platforms other than Debian is more-or-less unsupported. The same is likely about desktop environments outside of GNOME as well.
You are developing a lot of features for each and everything like ARM / Qnap / Theater View. That is great. Thanks
But for the most used desktop environment have no support ?? I think this is not acceptable. All major distros offer KDE as a desktop environment. Some - like OpenSuse - also as a standard.
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But for the most used desktop environment have no support ?? I think this is not acceptable. All major distros offer KDE as a desktop environment. Some - like OpenSuse - also as a standard.
Ultimately it's up to the JRiver devs to decide what distro/desktop environment to officially support on GNU/Linux, which is currently only Debian Wheezy for 32-bit and Debian Jessie for 64-bit (and I guess by extension GNOME as it's the default DE for Debian since Jessie). All other distros; Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, etc. are unofficially supported (and I suppose by extension all other DEs besides GNOME), usually only supported by the community itself (e.g. tutorials by myself and others) and not by the JRiver devs.
Thoughts Bob? Jim? Hendrik?
Personally, I've only tried out KDE a couple times a few years ago, however I've heard good things about KDE Plasma but yet to give it a try. I only use Unity and GNOME in my desktop Ubuntu/Arch Linux installs and Unity, GNOME and Cinnamon in all my virtual machines. I'm not sure about this issue though. Perhaps it's an X/Compiz bug or a graphics driver bug or even a skin bug in MC? Not sure.
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We don't "support" any desktop in particular.
MC is as close to being a generic X app as we can make it. That's why you can run it on different distros, desktops, windows managers, etc.