Bug#520520: clive: usability regression in switch to perl rewrite

[Gerfried Fuchs]

Package: clive
Version: 2.1.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

	Hi!

 The switch to perl might be a good idea, but the change in the options
and configuration is not really helpful.

 -) I can't find a way to put into the configuration that I prefer
--format=mp4 in the config file, I always have to give it on the
commandline.

 -) Where I formerly used --play=src (or even had the posibility to put
that into the config file) I now have to use --exec with the complete
calling syntax, quite inconvenient. :/

 -) Why is the file in /usr/share/doc/clive/examples called configrc and
not config like what would have to use in ~/.config/clive/?

 Please make both the config file options a bit more userfriendly (allow
storing of default values for players and formats, for a start) and also
think about a compatibility layer for the calling for people who used
clive in lenny already and propably have written scripts depending on
the switches.

 Thanks in advance, and by all means: THANKS for this helpful tool!
Being a powerpc user one doesn't have a proper flash plugin available.
:)

 So long!
Rhonda

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages clive depends on:
ii  libberkeleydb-perl           0.38-1      use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl          2.12-1      Read/Write .ini style files with a
ii  libdigest-sha-perl           5.47-1      Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libexpect-perl               1.20-2      Expect.pm - Perl Expect interface
ii  libhtml-parser-perl          3.60-1      collection of modules that parse H
ii  libterm-progressbar-perl     2.09-5      Perl module to print a progress ba
ii  liburi-perl                  1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  libwww-curl-perl             4.05-1      Perl bindings to libcurl
ii  libxml-simple-perl           2.18-1      Perl module for reading and writin
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]    5.10.0-19   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages clive recommends:
pn  clive-utils                   <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages clive suggests:
ii  ffmpeg                  0.svn20080206-17 multimedia player, server and enco

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