Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

[Damian]

Thanks Paul and Alan for your advices.

OT:
For me it's hard to drop amarok because I cannot find all of its
funtionality in one player. For now I'm using mpd+sonata. They're
great, but it's just not the same. I guess eventually I'll make my own
player :P


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:35:07 Damian wrote:
>> > I almost forgot - trying to emerge amarok2.0.1.1 is almost guaranteed to
>> > fail due to the amarok devs have no clue as to how mysql is built, plus
>> > other errors:
>>
>> Indeed. I think it's time for me to drop one more kde app.
>>
>> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238487
>> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250870
>
> I'm sorely tempted to do the same. amarok-2.0.1.1 does eventually compile if
> you:
>
> build mysql or mysql-community with USE="embedded -minimal"
> then
> build amarok
>
> But it just feels ... clunky. The big content panel in the middle is awkward:
>
> There's no way I can find to tell amarok which applet you want to go where,
> with multiple panes in use the animation effect to switch from one to the
> other is non-intuitive. Eventually by zooming the whole thing out you can see
> it's 4 panes arranged 2x2 and the animation simulates moving from one to
> another. But it doesn't *tell* you it's laid out like that so the random
> motion looks weird. The "last played" display switches back and forth between
> a "name with cover art" format and a long black oval just like the applet
> selector. Um, which is it supposed to be?
>
> And many many other quirks, too many to mention. As a player, it plays OK -
> sound does come out of the speakers. But players are commodity apps these
> days. Dump one, use another, easy peasy.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>