Thanks Paul and Alan for your advices. OT: For me it's hard to drop amarok because I cannot find all of its funtionality in one player. For now I'm using mpd+sonata. They're great, but it's just not the same. I guess eventually I'll make my own player :P
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:35:07 Damian wrote: >> > I almost forgot - trying to emerge amarok2.0.1.1 is almost guaranteed to >> > fail due to the amarok devs have no clue as to how mysql is built, plus >> > other errors: >> >> Indeed. I think it's time for me to drop one more kde app. >> >> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238487 >> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250870 > > I'm sorely tempted to do the same. amarok-2.0.1.1 does eventually compile if > you: > > build mysql or mysql-community with USE="embedded -minimal" > then > build amarok > > But it just feels ... clunky. The big content panel in the middle is awkward: > > There's no way I can find to tell amarok which applet you want to go where, > with multiple panes in use the animation effect to switch from one to the > other is non-intuitive. Eventually by zooming the whole thing out you can see > it's 4 panes arranged 2x2 and the animation simulates moving from one to > another. But it doesn't *tell* you it's laid out like that so the random > motion looks weird. The "last played" display switches back and forth between > a "name with cover art" format and a long black oval just like the applet > selector. Um, which is it supposed to be? > > And many many other quirks, too many to mention. As a player, it plays OK - > sound does come out of the speakers. But players are commodity apps these > days. Dump one, use another, easy peasy. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
