KDE @lemmy.kde.social KDE @floss.social 5 mo. ago

Amarok, KDE's legendary music player, is out with version 3.0.1.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/06/02/amarok-3.0.1-released/

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Still looks like ass
- And there was already a style change 😅
  
  I'd really like to know where Kde is heading style wise (I'm a regular donor)
  
  One of my biggest gripes about Linux in general is that none of the DEs can settle on a UI kit. I get WHY, but ffs, this is a major set back for various apps.
  
  Amarok uses Qt, just like every other KDE project. Likewise, I don't think GNOME has any project not using GTK.
  
  It's stuck on Qt5 while KDE is on Qt6
  
  @const_void@lemmy.ml UI kit doesn't necessarily mean good/bad design
  
  @kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social @tsonfeir@lemmy.world @GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml @leopold@lemmy.kde.social
  
  So it’s just crappy?
  
  What, the grey bars? Crappy is a rude way of putting it, but yes they look pretty bad. I think that's probably an artifact from the Qt4 days. It looked fine with Oxygen. Rest looks fine to me. If you think it looks busy, well the screenshot has a lot of panels enabled, just to showcase the features. IIRC many of them are not shown by default and a user would only keep the ones they need, since the interface is customizable.
  
  I’m not trying to be “rude.” But the line height, weird font sizes, spacing between elements. Just everything about it screams function over form. There is a way to have both. Most software that adheres to modern design principles have overcome the “janky” UI
  
  @tsonfeir @leopold I think they're more focused on fixing build errors and putting out a release for now, and leave UI updates for later. So we're stuck with the old look for this release.
  
  Whatever you do, don’t say it looks “crappy,” The abusive mods will remove your comment!!
  
  We can always say positive things in the sub.
  
  And therefore, this looks about as beautiful and modern as Windows 3.1.
- Yeah those glossy buttons etc don't fit in with the flat breeze theme at all. Looks like an unholy child of windows Vista and KDE 5
  
  It's not the theme, it's that it has 5 panels visible with vague hirerarchy. Music players shouldn't look like IDEs
  
  afaik they're all dock widgets, meaning they can all be hidden, moved and resized at will. you can even split them off into their own windows if you want
  
  I don't use the UI much. once its playing. Keyboard shortcuts to pause/restart.

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