Comments on: GSoC weekly report – issue 6

By: William

William — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:46:02 +0000

Thanks for the explanation sebas. I think I can make some things more wisely knowing that.

By: sebas

sebas — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:33:39 +0000

Plasma’s Animator is smart and only takes the time you allot it to for animations. That means on slower machines, frames will be skipped (so your animations get choppy, but won’t take ages).

Technically, it goes like this:
- You start a timer (happens in animator)
- Every frame that is painted, you ask the timer for the current progress (it keeps the time)
- You paint using the progress value

The beauty here is that no matter when you paint, since you interpolate time and progress, you can paint whenever you want, it doesn’t destroy the animation (as long as you have enough frames to see an animation at all of course).

By: angelinlin

angelinlin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:04:52 +0000

Great job. I’m looking forward to get amarok 2!
And you have a fantastic music collection. Interpol The kooks, kaiser chiefs, the postal service

By: Fri13

Fri13 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:28:09 +0000

Looks great! I hope that menu can be hided (ctrl+M) so it is possible to get polished outlook for it

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:59:36 +0000

Erm I meant: “terribly hard to *port them” of course.

By: Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:57:53 +0000

@fish: the Amarok plasmoids aren’t out of process, they are part of ‘amarok’. A plasmoid on the desktop would have to be in the ‘plasma’ process and could only communicate to Amarok via D-Bus.

It probably wouldn’t be terribly hard to part them to be out-of-process, but its not something for free.

By: Paulo Cesar

Paulo Cesar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:11:10 +0000

Hi, I’m loving this amarok2 alpha, and this current track applet is sweeet

But don’t you think it looks a bit foreign with the rest of amarok look? I mean, all amarok in gray tones and the current track in black?

Well, I’m sure this will be updated

Oh, and now on alpha can we report bugs? My albums artwork are all messed! And i cant group by album.. the collection gets all messed

But, there are only small issues, Amarok2 is goind to rock!! Thank you all devs

By: fish

fish — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:52:34 +0000

Alexei: why will it not be possible? That’s a shame…

By: AlexeiSergeev

AlexeiSergeev — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:48:57 +0000

2TheBlackCat: all of this will not be possible.

By: parena

parena — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:30:09 +0000

Nice. Amarok 2 is looking sooo bright and shiny! The stars… maybe use the ones that are for the cursor pointer marker when you press META-CTRL in KDE4 Also, try qt-RecordMyDesktop for screencasts. It works great.