Saner Mac Packages

[Christie Harris]

On 07/09/2008, at 10:49 AM, Orville Bennett wrote:

> So this is a smidge longer than 8 hours but who's counting. It's 48
> times better awesome so it's worth it.
> http://illogic-al.org/Amarok_2X.dmg
>
> Highlights:
> Won't break manual compilation because qt's phonon is found before
> KDE's.
> The installer won't fail if it encounters files being installed
> already on the filesystem. (can install over and over, and can install
> over macports packages)
> Apps won't crash if you try to launch before logging out.
> And in related news, you don't have to log out after installation
> anymore!
>
> Also Amarok's been updated to today's version as of 1:40 p.m. EST.
> Scripts work. Phonon-qt7 works. Still ~300 MB. Yada yada.
>
> Ah, and the title? Clearly there's one more to go. Will it be slimmer?
> Who knows ...
> ______________________________________________
Excellent! Installs nicely, no errors, and Amarok launches sweetly.  
(pretty fast!)
Building a collection across a wireless network is kinda slow, but  
that's my fault :-)

I suspect the ACL errors I was getting with the Ampache service are  
related to my Ampache server setup, so I'll look into it locally and  
work out how to best configure that.

Initial thoughts  - possibly not all Amarok's problem
I don't seem to be able to resize the window apart from using the max/ 
min button
Amarok doesn't have a title in the task list, just an icon (for  
example in the 'force quit' dialogue)
If there's a warning dialogue on launch (as in the ACL error I got)  
that requires a click before continuing, the splash screen covers it,  
and can't be removed before the dialogue is clicked - catch 22 (and  
how I discovered the force quit dialogue title thing above)!  I got  
around this by manually editing the amarokrc to either disable the  
splash, or turn Ampache service off again, depending what I was  
testing at the time.
If Amarok is force quit, the collection scanner keeps running, but if  
I then relaunch Amarok, another instance of collection scanner is  
started.

Apart from those, this is awesomely usable (for me so far)! Great work  
guys :-)

Cheers, Christie