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Re: Almost perfect.
by miles on Monday 03/Nov/2003, @15:50

The Opera M2 mail client technique of having various 'views' of an underlying set of items looks like a good idea here. All your songs are in some file tree, but you'd like to have a display by date, by artist, by artist after a date... or filter to show only the songs with 'KDE' in the title (only kidding!). This is a powerful mechanism to allow the user to dynamically change the way their stuff is represented, independently of the file system underneath (which will usually remain album-per-directory for music).

I'd agree with KDE multimedia being KMuddled what with so many alternative mixers, etc being available, and artsd being unruly. Time to slim it down (at least on Mandrake, which is many people's KDE showcase) and get it working for new users who can then explore happily.

Miles

M2 works pretty well now, by the way, after a slightly troubled start. Worth looking at (Opera 7.21 is current)

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