The package is missing a critical dependency which is required by phonon in order for the program to work, otherwise you get no sound. The dependency is kde-base/phonon-kde which provides kcm_phonon.so library, otherwise the program complains that it can't find *any* phonon plugin. Not phonon-gstreamer or phonon-vlc works without kde-base/phonon-kde. Kde obviously provides kde-base/phonon-kde by default, so i imagine in kde there is no problem installing tomahawk with the current dependencies. But i tried to emerge tomahawk-0.5.5 in gnome-shell, it pulled all dependencies and still i had no sound. Please inlcude kde-base/phonon-kde to dependencies as soon as possible. Also it would be nice if you included the following post-installation message after emerging tomahawk: "If you are not using KDE4, in order to change phonon backend (vlc,gstreamer,xine) you need to 'emerge kcmshell' and run 'kcmshell4 kcm_phonon'. Under backend tab you can select your phonon-backend. Note that you need to relog in order for changes to take effect" This is very important too as i personally (and a lot of people online who had problems with phonon-gstreamer) wanted to use phonon-vlc (unmerging phonon-gsteamer might work too as a workaround) as the default phonon-backend. This can be done using kcmshell, which apparently not many people in #kde no either, as i was lucky after hours of asking/waiting in the channel to find this answer. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome 2. emerge tomahawk (tomahawk with its current dependencies works only on kde) Actual Results: Without phonon-kde which provices kcm_phonon.so shared library Tomahawk doesn't play songs under gnome-shell with either phonon-vlc or phonon-gstreamer backends. Expected Results: Tomahawk playing songs, with just emerging tomahawk (emerge tomahawk)
Created attachment 329634 [details] tomahawk --verbose, with debug=5 phonon variables This is the log i got from tomahawk when sound was not working (prior to installation of kcm_phonon.so library).
> johu@elia ~ $ cat /usr/local/bin/scan > #!/bin/sh > qlist -e "$@" | xargs scanelf -L -n -q -F '%n #F' | tr , ' ' | xargs qfile -Cv | sort -u | awk '{print $1}' | uniq > johu@elia ~ $ scan tomahawk > app-crypt/qca-2.0.3 > dev-cpp/clucene-2.3.3.4-r4 > dev-libs/libattica-9999 > dev-libs/qjson-0.7.1_p20121016 > dev-libs/quazip-0.5 > media-libs/libechonest-2.0.1 > media-libs/liblastfm-1.0.3 > media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1 > media-libs/taglib-1.8 > media-sound/tomahawk-9999 > net-libs/jreen-1.1.0 > net-libs/qtweetlib-0.5 > sys-devel/gcc-4.6.3 > sys-libs/glibc-2.16.0 > x11-libs/libX11-1.5.0 > x11-libs/qt-core-4.8.3-r1 > x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.8.3 > x11-libs/qt-gui-4.8.3-r1 > x11-libs/qt-sql-4.8.3 > x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.8.3 1. emerge -C phonon-kde 2. start tomahawk 3. play song 4. listening to music Sorry, works for me. >(In reply to comment #0) > Also it would be nice if you included the following post-installation > message after emerging tomahawk: > "If you are not using KDE4, in order to change phonon backend > (vlc,gstreamer,xine) you need to 'emerge kcmshell' and run 'kcmshell4 > kcm_phonon'. Under backend tab you can select your phonon-backend. Note that > you need to relog in order for changes to take effect" This is true for all phonon based apps in gnome. This is not tomahawk specific.
