Hi,

I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or this is indeed broken... I have installed 2.1.0 (on Kubuntu 9.04) today, a big improvement over 2.0. Finally, context view (central panel) is usable. New applets also look much smoother. However, I can't understand their behavior. I have two applets enabled: Current Track and Lyrics (btw, the latter is awesome, works lightning fast). Now when I click on Current Track button at the bottom of the pane it does nothing. But when I click on Lyrics button it hides/unhides... guess what? Current Track applet. Why? IMHO, it would be much more intuitive (and useful) if clicking on an applet button would toggle this particular applet's hide/view mode.

Another small annoyance is the track play history list that appears on top of the central panel. I hate it and there seems to be no way to get rid of it. Help!

--bamyasi

The widgets are all set in a column, so if you have more than two, clicking on the third hides the previous ones.

Now to add/remove or change the place of the individual widgets, click on the tool icon on the right of the tool bar.

Mamarok wrote:The widgets are all set in a column, so if you have more than two, clicking on the third hides the previous ones.

Which is completely counter-intuitive and dare I say absurd behavior. Clicking applet button should affect (toggle in this case) this particular applet, not some other applet(s).

Mamarok wrote:Now to add/remove or change the place of the individual widgets, click on the tool icon on the right of the tool bar.

Going through add/remove dialogue every time you want to switch between applets is a bit tedious... I certainly hope that's not the Amarok's developers view of usability.

I think you this is a misunderstanding: to toggle the applets, just click on the respective button on the bottom, no need to add/Remove it all the time
And clicking on Lyrics just drags it to the top, why would this be a bad behavior? I use 4 applets, clicking on the button drags the one I want to see to the top, isn't that logical?

Mamarok wrote:I think you this is a misunderstanding: to toggle the applets, just click on the respective button on the bottom, no need to add/Remove it all the time
And clicking on Lyrics just drags it to the top, why would this be a bad behavior? I use 4 applets, clicking on the button drags the one I want to see to the top, isn't that logical?

OK, then I did misunderstand how it works, if clicking on applet's button drags it to top of the column than that's logical. I probably missed the point because I only tried it with two applets configured in CV. But that means there is still no way to easy toggle applets.

when you click on en entry on the bottom your not actully togling the state of it your just scroling it to the top i find this is a good way of doing this because some of them like the current track one take very little vertical space so that way i can have that and the albums applet shown at once.

p.s.
it might help newer users understand this if there was a smooth scroll animation to go with it.