Amarok Blog

hello planet to those who don't know who i am, my name is leo franchi, and i'm working on amarok for my SoC project this summer.

we've decided that for amarok 2.0 we want to emphasize what used to be called the "context browser" in amarok 1.x speak. we decided to break out the context browser into its own central widget... and have re-used libplasma to implement it. this allows us to use all the goodness from plasma with minimal effort (there is of course some tweaking required). as we do not depend on kdebase, we are currently svn:externing libplasma in our amarok tree and linking to it internally. I understand that post-4.0 (4.1 maybe?) libplasma will be broken out into its own separate library, and we will be able to depend on that.


using plasma we get to use gorgeous svg-themed applets, the clean and flexible applet/data engine architecture, plus many smaller but no less important features.

so if you're curious about what amarok 2.0 will look like, look no further: