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Re: To clear something up:
by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen on Friday 11/May/2007, @02:11

There's a pretty simple reason you need that many clicks with the mouse to make Amarok work like iTunes and XMMS (collection-is-playlist). This is NOT how you are supposed to be using Amarok, so obviously it's not easy :) That is how you're supposed to use JuK, so well... you'll find that more to your liking i suspect.

We have spent a HUGE amount of time researching the sidebar tab system, active research with the people in #amarok on freenode back around the 1.2 release cycle. We tried just about every option available to us, and the current solution (text shown, tabs taking up an equal amount of height of the sidebar, the colour animation designed to show what will happen if you click somewhere and so on) is the best thing we could come up with.

To reply to your comment on keyboard navigation - this is not in fact true in all apps. In some it is, sure (report bug on those), but taking your own example of Amarok again you can use the same shortcuts as you would in Kontact (that is, [ctrl] plus number of tab in top-down order) to switch between the browsers.

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