This week I've moved all the KDE application icons from crystal to hicolour. Hicolour is no longer the KDE 2 icon theme, that was renamed to kdeclassic. These days hicolour is the fallback icon theme used by all desktops that follow the freedesktop.org standard. KDE knows to always look in crystal because it's the default theme for KDE but over at Gnome they have a different default theme and couldn't find the KDE icons needed for the application menu. So remember always put your application's icon in hicolour if you want non-KDE users to be able to see it. (Actually applications outside KDE's CVS should probably put all their icons in hicolour incase KDE moves to a different default icon theme.)
KDE has a new logo, the blue square one. That means you should update your websites to use it and the favicon. This means you kde.nl and you kdevelopers.org.
This week I have also been trying Amarok. What I want in a music application is a long list of my tunes which is easily searchable. I don't need playlists or other fancy features. Juk gives me that but Amarok when it starts up and you get past the wizard doesn't. How do I find my music? There's nothing there damnit. The trick is to click on the Playlists icon at the side then double click on All Collection from the Smart Playlists. If Amarok did this by default I could get rid of Juk. It's also missing (or at least I havn't found it) a way to jump to see the currently playing tune in the playlist. Also having Windows keys defined as the shortcuts is annoying for those of us without Windows keys.
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That means you should update your websites to use it and the favicon. This means you kde.nl and you kdevelopers.org.
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I'm sorry? Is this the way we do business here? Just a requirement? No attempt at achieving a communal standpoint on what is desireable in terms of 'corporate branding' of KDE?
No
The KDE logo is the blue, square one, whether you like it or not. We are asking the KDE sites to update their favicons to the new icon.
That doesn't mean people can't use whatever they wish to represent KDE.
Curious about move to Amarok
If Juk gives you everything you want out of a music player, why the desire to be move over to Amarok? Is there some feature that people see in Amarok that isn't in Juk, or is it just the desire to use something different?
JuK users should use JuK
People coming from JuK usually expect amaroK to work like JuK. Which it doesn't. Having it load the 'all collection' by default doesn't work - amaroK has a static playlist, not the dynamic all collection playlist of JuK. The first time you use amaroK you don't have a collection it (its still building) so it would show nothing. Plus users with tens of thousands of tracks will have their RAM eaten up (I assume this happens with JuK as well.)
I came to amaroK from XMMS, so using the file browser tab to add the album I wanted to listen to was logical to me; basically I used amaroK like I had XMMS just without the annoying seperate file dialog of XMMS (now I use the party mode and collection browser). In other words, you can't please everyone and I think amaroK does a good job with users coming from many other media apps. Making amaroK more obvious for users with different previous app experience and usage habits is a noble UI goal however.
Current track
Well, you might not have looked too far, the jump to current track feature is definitely there
Playlist -> Goto Current Track (bound to [ctrl][kp_enter] by default, and you can add a button to the playlist as well doing the same thing.
You're not the first person with the "where's my music?!" reaction, and yes, we know it's there. Working on what to do (and no, loading the All Collection smart playlist is not the way to do it, they are not updated dynamically, and so people would get the "where's my new music?!" reaction in stead, when adding new music to the collection (plus there's that problem of large collections and the stupidly slow Qt listview)). If you've got a good solution to the problem, please do check out the wishlist item (currently b.k.o doesn't want to cooperate with me, so I can't tell you which) and the forum posts on the subject. IRC channel's also a good place to talk about this one