__/ [ Brad ] on Sunday 30 July 2006 15:42 \__
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:34:23 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> I tried building the lastest (1.4.x) a few weeks ago, under
>> the outdated SUSE 9.3. There were some dependencies to get
>> rectified, so compiling from source was no joy. I am
>> assuming that you keep your distribution (was it Mandriva?)
>> up-to-date, as one should.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Roy
>>
>>
>> PS - features I like in AmaroK: global keyboard accelerators
>> built in (xmms needs xmms-kde and/or wmxmms), jump to song
>> using substring, album covers from Amazon, prompto song
>> lyrics, crossfading (X-fader), Python scripts, xmms
>> visualisation plug-ins, themes and many, many more...
>> SongBird, which I also tried compiling (still in
>> development), will have a hard time catching on with this
>> other Qt/FOSS project from the Dutch folks. I believe that
>> AmaroK is bound to become cross-platform (like SongBird)
>> when KDE/Qt 4 is released (later this year).
>
> There where some dependency issues I had to wade through as well, but it
> was far from the "dependency hell" of days gone by. The configure and make
> script for Amarok are very good at telling you what exactly you need in
> in order to resolve dependency issues.
>
> Yes, I keep my system current with regular updates from Mandriva and
> other sources. Currently Mandriva 2006 Powerpack with 3.5.2. I look
> forward to KDE/QT4 being released. It should allow Linux to really shine
> for desktop users.
>
> Regards,
> Brad
*LOL* I wrote "lastest". At least I remembered your distro of choice
correctly. For what it's worth, he is some KDE 4 goodness (mockup and real):
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=35356&file1=35356-1.png&file2=&file3=&name=KDE4+Non-cascading+Apps+Menu
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=34645&file1=34645-1.png&file2=34645-2.jpg&file3=34645-3.jpg&name=Circulate+windows+KDE4
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=2&id=34645&file1=34645-1.png&file2=34645-2.jpg&file3=34645-3.jpg&name=Circulate+windows+KDE4
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=3&id=34645&file1=34645-1.png&file2=34645-2.jpg&file3=34645-3.jpg&name=Circulate+windows+KDE4
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=34568&file1=34568-1.jpg&file2=34568-2.jpg&file3=34568-3.jpg&name=Horizontal+%26+Expanded+Kmenu+for+KDE4
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=35183&file1=35183-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=KDE4+-+KDM+Theme+Designer
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=36349&file1=36349-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=KDE+4+-+SUSE+theme
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=33790&file1=33790-1.png&file2=&file3=&name=KDE+4+Task+Handling
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=3&id=36387&file1=36387-1.jpg&file2=36387-2.jpg&file3=36387-3.jpg&name=KDE+4+-+Yellow+Dog+%2B+Ideas
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=29507&file1=29507-1.jpg&file2=29507-2.jpg&file3=&name=Simplest+KDE4+%28mockup%29
http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=2&id=29507&file1=29507-1.jpg&file2=29507-2.jpg&file3=&name=Simplest+KDE4+%28mockup%29
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