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Get rid of unnecessary borders
by AC on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @07:23
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I hope the final version of Amarok 2 will have removed the redundant borders that are present in the screenshots provided by this Amarok Newsletter. See for example the many borders around the left pane titled "Building Collection Database..." in this screenshot:
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/uploads/amarok_on_mac.png
In general, I hope all KDE 4 apps will be audited to remove these unnecessary border. Robert Knight, the principal author of Konsole, has started doing just that (http://lists.kde.org/?t=117156103800002&r=1&w=2), but I would think this is a huge job. Perhaps the answer is to change the defaults in these widgets so border=0 unless otherwise specified...
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Amarok is not perfect
by ben on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @07:34
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I depends on uses. when you e.g. have large audio files, say 3 h recordings from radio shows then you want to jump to a precise position. The current slider is totally unusable for that, it is not precise enough.
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Some more cleanup
by cb on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @08:02
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In my view, cleanup is necessary on the buttons themselves. Why on earth would one still have the "Play" button when a song is being played. This in my opinion should be automatically changed to "Pause". This will save on screen real estate.
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Early state of development
by nhnFreespirit on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @08:22
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Commenting on the the GUI "cleanliness" is very premature at this point. The port to KDE4/Qt4 started exactly one month ago and the GUI is currently changing on an almost daily basis as people try out new things. Also, the GUI has until now had fairly low priority as just getting the basics to work was plenty of work in itself
Cheer up, there are many months to 2.0 will be released an many things will change before that! :-)
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Yay, Phonon
by Ben on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @09:56
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Looks like Phonon is really doing well, first Noatun now Amarok support it.
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New Layout
by Alistair John Strachan on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @10:29
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Why on EARTH is the playlist being relegated to second class when it comes to screen real estate? It's the single most important pane in the application!
I hope this "UI redesign" screenshot is not reflective of 2.0's UI layout. If it is, please make sure there's an option to switch it back!
I'm having a hard time finding things wrong with Amarok, except for the silly Magnatune integration that you can't compile out, and the obscene memory consumption.
But the UI, wow. It's flawless!
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ZOMG basic video support!
by Patcito on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @10:35
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thank you amarok devs :)
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preliminary splash screen
by Sutoka on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @10:42
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I simply LOVE that slash screen, hopefully it won't be too hard to switch to using that one after the 'real' splash screen replaces it in SVN (always nice to get a good laugh, and that would definitely give one every morning).
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CPU consumption, GUI
by J. M. on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @12:50
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What I can only dream of is a KDE music player that takes 0% of my CPU time during playback. This is the case with every "normal" player such as XMMS, Beep Media Player and of course any Windows player. Even Linux video players take 0% of CPU time during video playback - they can play an MPEG-4 video *with* MP3 audio together and CPU is at 0%. But just silly standalone MP3 audio playback (without video) in any KDE player, including Amarok, requires around 3-4%. This is really interesting and difficult to understand.
On the GUI front, the new screenshot looks only very slightly optimistic - the worst thing about the Amarok GUI is the ridiculously small slider used for navigation (seeking in the file), it is so incredibly awkward and difficult to use... In the new redesigned proposal, it is at least a little bit wider. But the layout is more chaotic and the info panel on the right is just way too narrow to be of any use.
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gapless
by scooter on Sunday 04/Mar/2007, @18:36
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Gapless has always been broken for me. MPD has been the only player aside from using the command line ogg123 that plays flawless gapless playback. I truly love Amarok and its interface and integration, but c'mon, using xine is delaying the advancements that I consider basic features of music. We need a good audio player to go with the already great interface.
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Amarok bug
by pod on Saturday 10/Mar/2007, @03:25
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Amarok file menu is buggy. See me browsing the files of my Robert Johnson files using the "down key". Strange jumps.
amarok.swf
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