Hello everyone

[lfranchi at gmail.com]

On Mar 15, 2008, at 9:24 AM, "Ian Monroe" <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Piotr Zaborski  
> <pitazboras at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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).
>
> The last.fm applet does some of this.
>
>> 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.
>
> Actually that idea calls for the student to create some applets and
> dataengines so your idea is a part of that proposal.
>
> This is lfranchi's baby so I'll leave it to him to make more helpful
> comments. :)

I think this Is a worthy project, but my only reservation is that it  
sounds a little short for 3 months of work. I would expand it if  
possible and include a detailed timeline.

Unfortunately, until next monday I will be in a desert in the middle  
of nowhere, so my responses will be very sparse.

Leo

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