Phonon configuration integrated in Amarok 2.1

Monday, March 9. 2009

Phonon configuration integrated in Amarok 2.1

Just wanted to let you guys know about a small patch I just made, that in my opinion really improves usability in Amarok 2.1:

It is now possible to configure Phonon (the KDE sound system that Amarok 2 uses) directly from Amarok

Here's a screenshot, illustrating the whole thing:

Enjoy, and stay tuned for Amarok 2.1

PS: Thanks to Pino Toscano for giving technical advice.

Posted by Mark Kretschmann in markey at 09:08 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Multimedia Settings" is probably a better window title than "Phonon configuration" as it's much less technical, and much more clear to those not intimate with kdelibs, i.e. most users

#1 sebas (Homepage) on 2009-03-09 10:45 (Reply)

Yes, I agree. We've been discussing this too. We will probably change the wording

#1.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2009-03-09 10:52 (Reply)

Ok, I went ahead and changed it. Should be better now.

#1.1.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2009-03-10 06:04 (Reply)

Make the button not that wide

50% of it's current width would be fine.

#2 Cumulus007 on 2009-03-09 11:31 (Reply)

Thanks, you're right. I just made the button less wide in SVN.

#2.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2009-03-10 06:06 (Reply)

So the only thing still missing in Phonon is applying the new configuration on-the-fly.

Until now I have to restart playback (or was it even the whole application) to have this new settings applied.

I'd love to have them instantly applied, so if I change my primary "Music" output to my USB headset, I want to hear music from it as soon as I click "Apply" in the phonon dialog.

Maybe KDE4.3 will finally do this.

Regards, Elias P.

P.S. @The Amarok Team: Thanks a lot for all the hard work you're doing on Amarok - as I'm following all the KDE development very closely I was really shocked when I saw the first Amarok-2.x experiments but now I realise what really great potential it has - can't wait to see 2.1 running on my box.

#3 eliasp on 2009-03-09 16:00 (Reply)

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