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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Sebastian |
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Beßler<sebastian@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Duncan schrieb: |
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>> But I finally got so fed up with amarok I found a different solution. |
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>> They killed all the functionality I actually used, while adding a |
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>> bunch of junk I'm not interested in. |
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> That is exact my point. Hurray a lot of new fancy dingelings but lack of |
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> needed and used functions like generic usb audioplayer support. |
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Good news, generic USB support is coming back in latest Amarok 2 svn: |
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http://awainzin-foss.blogspot.com/2009/08/amarok-2-universal-mass-storage-device.html |
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> They put so much new stuff in there, why not a import function for the |
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> old amarok 1.4 database? I mean one that works and not only imports 10 |
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> or so records. |
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They've allegedly fixed it in the current releases but I haven't tried |
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it. I never used any Amarok-metadata so when I went to 2.x I just |
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started fresh and had it scan my files again. There was supposedly a |
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workaround for the upgrade bug, if you let Amarok 2 build your |
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collection like new and THEN import, it would work properly. But |
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importing into a blank collection would only do a few records and |
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stop. |
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The biggest thing that annoyed me in Amarok 2 was the handling of |
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"Various Artists", which has been fixed, so I'm okay now. Latest SVN |
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versions let you edit metadata in the playlist view also, which many |
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people missed from 1.x series. |
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Handling of online streams is much better and more diverse in Amarok |
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2, so there is at least one thing it does better than 1.x. :) |
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> What I miss in kde 4.x so far is the run command kicker applet that I |
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> had in kde3 as my main way of starting apps. In kde4 I have to use the |
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> shortcut to get krunner (is it the name?) and type it there. And I don't |
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> like krunner. I don't want any suggestions, I know what I am about to |
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> start, thank you. |
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Maybe something like this: |
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http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=91495 |
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> Oh and I miss the weather applet, and the kworldclock background image |
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> and… and… and… |
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I miss the old weather applet, too. The weather forecast and LCD |
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weather station don't show the same kind of info when docked into the |
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panel. |
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> Can't they just add a feature so that kde4 looks and feels and behaves |
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> as kde3 did? Yes I know that it is a dream, but sometimes dreams really |
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> come true. |
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A KDE3-style theme would used by a lot of people, for sure. I still |
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use the Windows 95 "classic" look on WinXP computers :) |
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