[Feedback] Amarok 2 for Windows

Christie Harris dangle.baby at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 22:44:18 UTC 2008


On 25/06/2008, at 5:30 AM, Daniel Winter wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 June 2008 20:07:21 Beso wrote:
>> well, i thought that amarok 2 would just take full advantage of qt- 
>> phonon,
>> but i see now that's not really accurate. i don't really care since  
>> i don't
>> use windows, but i just can't see kde to get on windows too to put  
>> it on
>> some pcs of my friends.
>
> Well, amarok2 depends on qt and kdelibs.  As they will be avaible  
> for Windows
> (ok they are already)  Amarok2 will run native on Windows.
>
> And your friends do not need to install the KDE Desktop. Only the  
> libs.
>
> At the moment there is an easy installer for that but it will  
> install more
> than you really need.  I think that we will see easy installers for  
> Amarok2
> for Windows which will just install everything needed and Amarok2.  
> And then
> there will be a startmenu entry for Amarok2 and that is everything  
> you will
> see than from kde.
>
> Here a screenshot from Amarok2 on my PC running Vista: (the  
> screenshot is some
> weeks old):
>
> http://luna.der-winti.de/winamarokmarble.png
>
> So I see no problems with the fact that it needs kdelibs.
>
> DanielW

That's hot! Suddenly Vista looks sexy :-)

A2 dev has come such a long way in what feels like such a short time.  
Kudos!

Christie




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