On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.ukwrote:
It's not just kmail IMO, despite being on gnome I enjoyed using Amarok up to version 1.4, it was a bit heavy but I liked some of the content and smartplaylist features and it did a reasonable job of helping me search and manage my collection, so I put up with the bloatedness.
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I am not sure what sort of deranged mind decided to put the track position bar at the very top (and make it 2 foot long) and then the currently playing track info at the very bottom when due to the over sized and silly navigation buttons there is acres of wasted space above the bar. Add to this the even slower behavior and I had to hunt down a replacement.
Wow, thank you for the pointer to Ario, it's a nice mpd client.
That said, I've just snapped and put amarok 1.4 back on my Jaunty installation and I must say I'm a bit happier. It comes as close to the perfect music player (for me) as anything I've seen, and I've not got an issue with trading some resources for that.
This:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/amarok14/
May be of interest to the interested Jaunty/Amarok user.