hello, i have been an amarok user for some time.
it really is a great software. i would like to
give some suggestions to improve the usability
of the 2.x series. there are plenty of changes
that could help improve amarok, but i will
only list those which are really easy
(in my opinion) to be made.

im using
Amarok Version 2.2.0, KDE 4.3.1.

here we go:

1) i heavily use amarok shortcuts, but i noticed
there is an important one missing: the 'play' shortcut.
it seems to have been merged with 'pause'
i don't have anything against that, but i think
a separate shortcut for play should be provided also:
actually there is no shortcut to play the current song
from the beginning, thing which i used to do quite a bit

2) tab order seems a little bit messed up;
i'd expect the first elements to be focused to be
the search fields, since there are shortcuts to
play the next song, the previous, stop, and whatever else,
pressing tab on the main window should focus the search fields
to allow users to quickly browse their collection/playlist
thing which they can't do with shortcuts..

actually tab on main windows focuses in this order:

collection search field, Ok but i have some osservations:
default shortcuts for seek actions are left and right,
which also seem to be the only keys to expand and collapse
and item in the collection list! i consider
these default shortcuts 'bad' meaning they should be
changed to something else.

collection item list,
in my opinion useless:
users would have typed something in the collection search field
if they wanted to search for something.. no?

playlist itself, this makes a little more sense..
but i think it should be focused after the playlist search field itself,
because that's where user would want focus if they wanted to search
for something to play. and being all of the other possible actions
performable with shortcuts that would be most often the reason to popup
the main window in the first place.

volume control, there are plenty of ways of controlling volume..

im a little surprised, the playlist search field which i consider
the most important control on that window doesn't get focused at all !!

3) again we talk about the playlist search field.
pressing enter while it has focus does nothing!
back in the 1.4x times to browse my playlist and play
something in particular i just had to popup the main window,
press tab twice, type what i was looking for and then press enter,
voilà! the song was playing, and the search field cleared by itself:
easy, fast, logical, superb. now the search field doesn't get focused
at all so i have to click on the search field, type, manually select
with mouse(or by pressing arrow keys) the track i want to play and
clear the search field.. it takes me twice the time..

4) shortcuts for 'queue track', and 'stop after playing this track'
are still missing. menu entries to 'repeat track' should also be provided.

5) is it me or repeat track just won't work?
i select playlist->repeat->track
random is off. song is not repeated!

6) when random is on, 'previous track' control
should play the previous song anyway.
the 'next track' should be used to play another
random track.

that's something to begin with.
it would be great if these things could be implemented,
even alongside of what is currently implemented, without
stripping anything.. where possibile.

regards

Thanks for the suggestions.

Please check if any of those are not already in the wishlist on Bugzilla:
http://tinyurl.com/wishlist2assigned

and please, file a wish for each item that is not already reported there. Since the developers hardly find time to check the forum for suggestions, the wishlist on Bugzilla is the place to to report to.

And please, one single item per wish.