Amarok 2 on OS X.

[Ljubomir Simin]

On Feb 3, 2008 7:09 AM, Big O <illogical1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For everyone on who who might not have been on "the action" via irc for the
> past week (and a half?) I've been trying to get amarok to compile, install,
> output audio and show it's menus properly on OS X. Through varying levels of
> "masterful" hackery this has, finally, been achieved. I'm actually quite
> proud of this since I originally just wanted the thing to build.
> I have, of course, found some outstanding issues which I'll list below:
>
>
> - no menubar -> fixed
> - no scrolling of scrollbar when using phonon backend xine backend.
> - psuedotransparent osd crashes 'rok -> replace with growl based OSD
> - plasmaview not showing up. at. all.
> - no movement possible in cover bling mode.
> - can't drag from file browser to playlist as this crashes amarok (does this
> happen in linux too?)
> - Settings dialog too large. Even on my 1400x900 screen. This is caused by
> the "Engines" section. Specifically the xine engine config screen.
>
> As I've gotten far too familiar with the menu code I figured out the I could
> add menus to the OS X dock icon popup menu. I put the entries from the
> "Amarok" Menu in the dock menu. I also changed the name of the "Amarok" menu
> entry to "File". Otherwise there would be two "Amarok" menu entries, which
> would just look weird.
>
> So here's how amarok on OS X looks now:
> http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture6jf1.png
>
> Patch is attached. I've no idea how this explodes when compiled in linux so
> I figured sending a patch was better than forcing it into svn.
>
>
>
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Aaah, it looks so hot!

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Ljubomir Simin
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