I've just made an update (emerge -uDN world) of the latest stable tree and alsaplayer was updated to version 0.99.76-r3. When I run alsaplayer I didn't have the gtk interface. So I checked whether this was my problem or not and I found out, that alsaplayer-0.99.76-r3.ebuild disables gtk with --disable-gtk. Before reporting this bug I searched for similar bug reports and found at #125479 "so that we can get rid of the (buggy) gtk interface. There are plenty of other players using GTK interfaces, alsaplayer is still a decent player for commandline, but it doesn't support unicode in the gtk1 support, and it's unmaintained upstream." I think this ebuild should still have a gtk flag, perhaps not "gtk" if the there are big problems with it but "with-gtk" so that each user knows that he has to enable this flag before getting the gtk support. I created an ebuild with this new flag. I don't want to have an own alsaplayer ebuild in my overlay :) patch: --- alsaplayer-0.99.76-r3.ebuild 2006-07-16 01:15:13.000000000 +0200 +++ alsaplayer-0.99.76-r3.ebuild-new 2006-07-16 01:16:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ia64 ~mips ppc ~sparc x86" -IUSE="alsa audiofile doc esd flac jack mikmod nas nls ogg opengl oss vorbis xosd" +IUSE="alsa audiofile doc esd flac jack mikmod nas nls ogg opengl oss vorbis xosd with-gtk" RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-1.2.10 media-libs/libsndfile @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ ogg? ( media-libs/libogg ) opengl? ( virtual/opengl ) vorbis? ( media-libs/libvorbis ) + with-gtk? ( <x11-libs/gtk+-2 ) xosd? ( x11-libs/xosd )" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} @@ -58,6 +59,12 @@ myconf="${myconf} --enable-oggflac" fi + if use with-gtk; then + myconf="${myconf} --enable-gtk" + else + myconf="${myconf} --disable-gtk" + fi + econf \ $(use_enable audiofile) \ $(use_enable esd) \ @@ -71,7 +78,7 @@ $(use_enable sparc) \ $(use_enable vorbis oggvorbis) \ ${myconf} \ - --disable-gtk \ + --disable-gtktest \ --disable-sgi --disable-dependency-tracking \ || die "econf failed"
Created attachment 91837 [details] ebuild with with-gtk flag
Created attachment 91838 [details, diff] the patch
No, it shouldn't, already stated on Bug 125479, it crashes like hell w/ gtk-1.2, and doesn't support a decent gtk version that's actually maintained upstream at all. Read Bug 125479, Comment #16. Sorry.
I read all bug reports related with gtk and alsaplayer. I don't knwo if I had luck but I don't have crashes with alsaplayer. Let me know if there is now way that my changes in the tree so I can move my ebuild in my overlay Thanks
