Recently I began using QtCreator to try and do some development on Amarok. During my day job as a Java developer I get to work with tools like Intellij, which is a great IDE when you can put aside the problems of Java GUI apps on Linux. For a long time I’ve been using [...]
A few weeks ago I started working on improving a few little niggling problems that I’ve been having with Amarok recently. Here’s a brief overview of what I’ve done.
Prettier Collection Browser
A image is really the best way to show this:
You can see that each collection uses more space to make it easier to find and [...]
For the last four days I’ve been trying to implement cover art support for iPods in Amarok 2.1. I’ve reached desperate measures here, appealing to the wider public for any hints that might be available.
Here’s the problem. Any returned GdkPixbuf objects from libgpod when called from within Amarok are invalid — they’re either garbled junk, [...]
A community service announcement:
World of Goo has been released for Linux.
It’s a wonderfully enjoyable puzzle game which has been awarded multiple awards across for the PC, Mac and Wii versions – and it has recently become available for Linux. It’s cheap, DRM & region free, and if you buy it you’ll not only be supporting [...]
