Performance questions - was: Re: New collaborator presentation

[Seb Ruiz]

On 14/11/2007, Rodrigo Marques <oritemis.frc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Nikolaj,
>
> Thank you for welcome!
>
> I am certain Amarok 2 will run soft and smooth in KDE 4, but have you an
> idea of how much memory and processor will it need? And in Gnome, Windows
> and Mac? Sure thing, being cross platform is a great leap, but nice
> performance is very important either.
>

We simply can't quantify these things just yet. It depends on Qt and
kdelibs usage on win/mac as well.

> Best regards,
>
> Rodrigo Marques.
>
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Nikolaj Hald Nielsen" <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>
> To: amarok-promo at kde.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:33:44 +0100
> Subject: Re: New collaborator presentation
> Hello Rodrigo
>
> Welcome to the team! :-)
>
> I will let some of the regular rokymoters tell you abut their current
>  plans, but I can write a few lines about the state of Amarok itself.
>
> Currently we have a stale branch of Amarok ( the 1.4 branch ) that is
> currently at version 1.4.7. This branch is basically in maintenance
> mode, but it is actively updated with bugfixes and minor improvements
> quite often.
>
> The bulk of our development work is currently aimed at Amarok2. This
> new verion will be quite different than the 1.4 branch as it aims to
> fully utilize all the new technologies made available by the upcoming
> KDE4, as well as add a bunch of new features and greatly update the
> look of the application. If you go to our homepage ( amarok.kde.org )
> and browse the blog archive, you will find many entries on the
> progress of, and ideas behind, Amarok2. Also, the upcoming version  is
> mostly cross platform, so we expect to release a windows and Mac
> version sometimes after the release of the *nix version.
>
> We hope to be able to release Amarok2 in the first part of next year,
> sometimes after KDE4 becomes available. Personally, I would like to
> see the release of some sort of preview ( alpha or beta? ) around the
> time KDE4 is officially released ( I don't know if this is possible
>  though )
>
> Hope that gave you an idea of the software side of things.
>
> - Nikolaj
>
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