On 8/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nikolaj Hald Nielsen</b> <<a href="mailto:nhnfreespirit@gmail.com">nhnfreespirit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi guys!<br><br>I will start working for Magnatune soon (sept. 1st) and my first real<br>task, besides integrating the new subscription stuff into, is getting<br>Amarok 2.0 out the door, on Linux as well as Windows and Mac.
<br><br>I know, and this has been discussed quite a bit recently recently,<br>that there is still a _lot_ of work to do. That is why I would like<br>input from the rest of the crew about which areas I should spend some<br>
time on, once the service stuff is somewhat stable. I do not want to<br>step on anyones toes by hijacking their favorite projects, so the<br>suggestions below are just that, suggestions. Please add your comments<br>and any items I have not thought about.
<br><br><br>The following are a list of, what I see as, high priority items ( I am<br>most likely missing about a hundred ):<br><br><br>1. The playlist - This one seems to need quite a bit of work yet. I<br>have to admit, I did not follow the discussion about not using the
<br>standard model/view stuff too closely, but switching from that seems<br>to have set back the playlist quite a bit. If all we gain by switching<br>from this is the ability to do inline editing of items, I would<br>strongly suggest that we forgo this for the
2.0 release and pick it up<br>later in the 2.x series. Another idea I had was to, in the interest of<br>getting stuff out the door, do a simple playlist view more in the<br>style of the 1.4.x one, just to have something working.
<br><br>2. Popupdropper or another solution to dragging across the context view.</blockquote><div><br>I think right now this is the most important, merely because it doesn't exist *at all* yet. Furthermore, we actually need to come up with a way to solve this problem best too :) But IMHO this would be a really good thing to work on, as I definitely think it's necessary.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">3. General interface cleanup. Maybe just me, but I still don't really<br>like the toolbar, and there are some other sticky points still.
<br><br>4. Plasma stuff!! :-) Applets, engines, layout....</blockquote><div><br>I can't really talk about anything here but the plasma stuff (and PUD :) so here's the status. Basically, a lot of tweaking is needed. Most of the fundamental code is down already, except for one major thing: the loading pane (or however we do it). I'm thinking of taking raptor (from workspace/base/raptor) which is a very pretty applet loader for plasma, once it has matured (still WIP). Basically i really don't like the current ControlBox, and i only put it there because it was an easy copy and paste.
<br><br>Also, i still want to look into the Plasmoid packaging stuff, and how it applies to amarok (they are standalone packages with full applets in them). We also need a way to set global themes. <br><br>More applets are also needed,
e.g. <a href="http://last.fm">last.fm</a> suggested songs, related artists, and more. <br><br>Anyway, these are basically my goals. If you want, feel free to jump in (just tell me so i don't too :)<br><br>leo<br></div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I also really thing that we should clearly define what features are<br>essential for the
2.0 release and focus our efforts on these. I know<br>this will most likely mean that not everyone will get their pet<br>project in the first release, but I think it is worth it to stick with<br>the release often, release early philosophy.
<br><br>Let me hear what you think!<br><br>- Nikolaj<br>_______________________________________________<br>Amarok-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Amarok-devel@kde.org">Amarok-devel@kde.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel">
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