Entries by Martin Aumueller

Today, we managed to link the freshly ported Amarok 2.0 for the first time. Not on Linux, but on native OS X. It didn't even crash right away. A first start made it complain about a missing audio engine and run kbuildsycoca. Only a second run made it crash for real. This means that the period where Amarok successfully didn't compile using cmake is over and is now followed by a period where it sucessfully doesn't run.
That's what we have been waiting for for a couple of days now. Everybody said that working on a thing that doesn't even compile is no fun. But still everybody wanted to get his fair share of this no-fun, and we saw the number of commits sky-rocket, which means that the no-fun period is almost over after a very short time. But hopefully that does not mean that we loose the fresh energy which was brought to us by the change to KDE 4.

And if you cannot believe that it doesn't run:

At K4M, we decided that amaroK's context view should get a more prominent place. After some discussion, a tabbed Playlist/Context/Wiki/Lyrics view seemed to be the way to go. So we just did a dirty hack to try it out:

This could somehow work, but Florian from Open Usability pointed a lot of problems, and we haven't been satisfied with the huge number of tabs either ("4 is just too many" is a recurring theme here). So we did a second try using a splitter:


This showed that actual code for experimenting is much better than just mock-ups. And it also showed us that we prefer this Kmail-like look - expect this to see in one of your next amaroK installs!