[Feedback] What did you do with Amarok?

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Nicolas Will<nico at youplala.net> wrote:
> I believe that there is a bit of a failure to communicate around here.
>
> I'll give my opinion (yes, another one!) and I'll try not to flame
> anyone (good luck with that).
>
> The way I see it, purely as a user, the main problem here is the lack of
> transition.
>
> One day Amarok 1.4 was supported and 2.0 in development, the next day
> 1.4 was not supported anymore and 2.0 was the de facto thing to use if
> you wanted any support.
>
> Guess what the distros package: 2.0, as 1.4 was officially unsupported.
>
> Unfortunately 2.0 was a great base, but not yet a great product. The way
> I see it 2.0 was in-between a tech preview and a beta, in any case
> relatively far from a preview.
>
> I understand that the devs needed to get users on board at some point,
> that helps get momentum.
>
> However, with 2.0 lacking quite a few features, lacking a lot of polish
> and coming with a lot of dramatic changes from the baseline, the shock
> is great for normal non-geek users.
>

Yea I agree. It distressed me to see Amarok 2.0 when I installed the
latest Kubuntu on my girlfriends laptop. She sure didn't appreciate
it. 2.1 is so much better, and since probably 1.4 still makes more
sense as a default.

But as I think Leo already pointed out, we ain't the distros. :)

Ian