Full time on Amarok

[Jeff Mitchell]

Leo Franchi wrote:
> On 8/21/07, *Nikolaj Hald Nielsen* <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     2. Popupdropper or another solution to dragging across the context
>     view.
>
>
> 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.
Regarding the PUD, I think we all liked the concept but the 
implementation, in the three or so ways it was attempted, was 
troublesome.  However, with the little I actually know about Plasma 
(i.e. I don't really know how easy it is, or not, to code nice graphic-y 
things with it), I'm guessing that the best way to do this -- if we have 
it at all -- would be to implement it as a Plasma applet that is 
automatically moved to the foreground (or other objects are 
minimized/iconized and then restored after).  So the applet could always 
be running, and simply move it to the front when necessary.

By the way...although it will be nice to have an Amarok release for when 
KDE releases, Amarok 2.0 might want to take a cue from KDE 4.0: a 
technology release, with the polish -- and the users, and the push for 
users -- coming with 4.1.  From the little I know being on the release 
party planning team, I have the feeling that 4.0 won't be hyped to users 
or even distributions as something people should switch to -- that 
target is 4.1, when things are more stable, more mature, etc.  4.0 will 
simply let KDE showcase the technologies they've developed as they mature.

Not that I don't want 2.0 to have users, but I think it'll be in pretty 
much the same boat as KDE...huge overhaul, not necessarily too 
stable/tested, etc.  So perhaps we're better releasing 2.0 on similar 
terms, then trying to mature and polish and extend functionality and 
features for a 2.1 release to coincide with the KDE 4.1 release.

--Jeff