== How not to improve your CD player application

This is one of the rare entries that I have to present in pictorial
form.

Here is a 65% size view of what _kscd_, the KDE CD playing program,
looks like in Fedora 8 (where it is version 1.6, from KDE 3.5.10):

{{IMG:/~cks/pics/kscd/s65-kscd-f8.png 304 109 Fedora 8 KsCD}}

Here is what it looks like in Fedora 10, again 65% size:

{{IMG:/~cks/pics/kscd/s65-kscd-f10.png 454 165 Fedora 10 KsCD}}

(Links to full sized versions are [[here </~cks/pics/kscd/kscd-f8.png>]]
and [[here </~cks/pics/kscd/kscd-f10.png>]]. Note that the Fedora 10
version is a shaped window; the black areas are normally transparent.)

One of these two applications is useful. The other one has been
'improved', presumably because people thought that the first one looked
kind of boring (also, apparently, people wanted to be able to give the
CD player 'skins'; there are several supplied with Fedora 10's _kscd_,
all of them equally bad).  In the process it has been made less useful
and even less functional (they are playing the same CD, but only the
older one displays the artist correctly).

Apparently I now need a new CD player program, just like [[last
time CDPlayerQuest]]. Which is a real shame, because _kscd_ was
a nice CD player once it started working reliably in Fedora 8.

(Alternately I need to figure out how to build the Fedora 8 version
of _kscd_ on Fedora 10. Hopefully the KDE libraries are compatible
enough.)