It seems from your post that you strongly believe that the Amarok developers are either all insane, incompetent in the extreme or just plain evil, that we are putting as much effort as possible into destroying Amarok2 and making it completely unusable. Why would you ever use a program made by such a bunch of loosers? </sarcasm>
While I cannot objectively refute the "insane" or "incompetent" parts, I can assure you that, as we are all Amarok users first and developers second, we are making very sure that the application is usable on a daily basis. With Amarok2 we are trying to break some new ground, and to be honest, I would have been very dissapointed if everyone loved the new design right from the start. All great new things start out by dividing the waters :-)
Also, if Amarok2 really turns out as horrible as you think it will, you can rest assured that someone will step up and maintain the 1.4.x series, or maybe even port it to KDE4. that's the beauty of Free software.
Last but not least, the context view _can_ be completely hidden by simply resizing the playlist or browsers, and there is currently a prototype implementation of a playlist view that looks almost like the one in Amarok 1.4.x ( Which I doubt will be included in 2.0, but if people really need it, I am sure it will show up somewhere along the 2.x cycle )
Just to put thing in perspective, yesterday Amarok2 had reached that magical state where, even though many features are still missing, I could use it to play music all day with no crashes. I personally think that people will love this player, even if it takes some time getting used to for people accustomed to 1.4.x
Developers are either insane or just plain evil
It seems from your post that you strongly believe that the Amarok developers are either all insane, incompetent in the extreme or just plain evil, that we are putting as much effort as possible into destroying Amarok2 and making it completely unusable. Why would you ever use a program made by such a bunch of loosers? </sarcasm>
While I cannot objectively refute the "insane" or "incompetent" parts, I can assure you that, as we are all Amarok users first and developers second, we are making very sure that the application is usable on a daily basis. With Amarok2 we are trying to break some new ground, and to be honest, I would have been very dissapointed if everyone loved the new design right from the start. All great new things start out by dividing the waters :-)
Also, if Amarok2 really turns out as horrible as you think it will, you can rest assured that someone will step up and maintain the 1.4.x series, or maybe even port it to KDE4. that's the beauty of Free software.
Last but not least, the context view _can_ be completely hidden by simply resizing the playlist or browsers, and there is currently a prototype implementation of a playlist view that looks almost like the one in Amarok 1.4.x ( Which I doubt will be included in 2.0, but if people really need it, I am sure it will show up somewhere along the 2.x cycle )
Just to put thing in perspective, yesterday Amarok2 had reached that magical state where, even though many features are still missing, I could use it to play music all day with no crashes. I personally think that people will love this player, even if it takes some time getting used to for people accustomed to 1.4.x