Lisa really likes rhythmbox
My girlfriend Lisa has been running Hardy for a good while now, some things are a pain for her, like Wine not managing to run Excel 2003 and OpenOffice having corners of bad usability (”Grraagh, why can’t I ….”), but sometimes she loves it. Today she’s been working and playing CDs on her laptop, and she said - ‘look at this, it’s really clever! It shows the CD covers and knows what the tracks are! And it even does it for really old CDs!”. Its the little things that make her happy. Well done Rhythmbox team 
May 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Just out of curiosity…what’s wrong with the wine-installation
Excel 2003 runs fine for me (just about the only thing I need wine for).
May 19th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
John:
No idea! This is just using the default hardy wine packages (0.9.59) , and installing office 2003 as normal. Maybe I should try some newer version of wine?
May 20th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Yeah, the rythmbox cover art thing is good if you don’t have cover art for your music, but all my tracks have the art in the mp3 and aac files, and it still uses the internet one… It’s annoying, because sometimes CDs are released here with slightly different artwork, and my covers are generally higher quality…
I wish it could grab the art from the files, and if it wasn’t present, then it would use the internet to find it…
May 20th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Hi,
I’ve managed to have the whole Office2k3 suite runnig under wine 0.9.58 (and 1.0 rc now) for some time now. As far as I remember I had to change some core libs (riched*) to “native” in wine configurator, mount the MSoffice iso with unhide option and run the setup program.
I’d reccomend your girlfriend to switch to Openoffice, though
cheers
May 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hopefully she’ll still love it when it segfaults on her every half hour ..