Hello everyone

[Piotr Zaborski]

> Well, lets hear them! The we can try to comment on how usable and
>  feasible they are! :-) Remember, the ideas on the wiki are just that,
>  some ideas that we came up with to give people an idea bout the kinds
>  of projects that are possible within the scope of Amarok. If you think
>  you have a better idea, or onw you would much rather work on, that is
>  perfectly fine too.

I was thinking about some kind of "home page" applet for Amarok. It
would appear when Amarok is not playing music (e.g. after start of
application) and would contain mainly a list of typical tasks like:
* playing favourite album/playlist/tracks,
* playing number of randomly chosen tracks,
* updating collection (is it "typical" enough to appear on this list?).
It can also display some useful information:
* statistics,
* recent/future events/album releases (the problem is to gain this
information - wikipedia contain some but it probably would be tricky
to convert it to useful form).
This applet should also take into consideration music services - when
user have last.fm account, it may display their last.fm stats,
invitations to friends, shoutbox messages and so on (I havent't
already checked if it is possible to aggregate these pieces of
information in simple way).

This idea is quite similar to "Context View development and Applet
writing" idea on the list I mentioned before. I think these two could
be merged in some way.

--Piotr