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Make your Kicker (the KDE main panel) rock with your music.
It is a Kicker applet that displays what you listen to in Amarok.
A full-screen display can also be used independently of the applet.
With this panel applet, you always know what you are listening to, and can watch its cover and star rating: it is always visible.
It allows you to rate your music with one click: you can quickly change the number of stars of your musics from anywhere on your desktop.
Finally, it let you remotely control Amarok with one click from anywhere on your desktop: play next or previous track, pause, play, and seek to another position in the current track.
You also have the possibility to show your currently playing music in a beautiful full-screen display. Ideal for parties or to listen to music while doing something else away from the computer.
The full-screen display can be triggered independently of the panel applet. You can start it from the KMenu or from Amarok itself.
To install:
- You need to have automake 1.9 installed for the compilation to work. It should be Ok on modern Linux distributions. You also need Python for the Amarok script to work (optional). This should also be Ok.
- Extract the archive
- Open a konsole in the extracted folder (in Konqueror, go to the extracted folder and press F4)
- Run this set of command: ./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) && make && sudo make install
- It will asks your root password to install the applet on your system
- Right click the Kicker, choose "Add an Applet to the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Double-click "Kirocker Music Display"
- Start playing a music. The applet is empty when Amarok is stopped or paused, to not annoy you with useless information when you are working
- If you do not want the panel applet, the full-screen display can be trigerred from the KMenu or from Amarok itself (restart Amarok, enable the "Kirocker Music Display" script, and then right-click the playlist to see the action to show full-screen)
Note: After an upgrade from a previous version, press Alt+F2 and type the command "kicker default restart" to restart the Panel with the new installed version.
How to make the Kicker translucent:
The Kicker translucent white vertical background is also included in the package.
- Your screen resolution need to be 1280*800. If not, you will need some artistic skills and a Gimp experience to modify the given background
- Extract the image "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" located in the Kirocker Music Display archive
- Open your desktop background image with The Gimp
- Drag and drop "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" to the Gimp window of your background image
- Save the image and set it as your desktop background image
- Right click the Kicker and choose "Configure the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Place the panel on the right (click the button on the right)
- Set the size to "Personalized" and enter "96 pixels"
- In the "Appearance" tab, check "Enable transparency"
- Click "Ok" and you're done: ENJOY!
13 years ago
4.0:
- Theme support with wonderful ones provided by default and a graphical editor that is both powerful and surprisingly easy to use
- Have fun karaokees with automatically-scrolling lyrics
- Added a better no-cover image, from Oxygen (sorry guys, but it's the only beautiful and scalable image I found)
- Now using the "Track, Artist, Album" order (instead of "Artist, Album, Track") to be more complient with other displays, such as iPod, Last.fm, and even Amarok.
- Changed the application icon to a better one, using an Oxygen composition. Also show the icon back in the panel big tooltip, as it cannot be confused with an empty cover image anymore
- Removed a lot of bugs
- Enhanced performances
Browse for new themes:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/search.php?search=Search&text=kirocker
Older list of changes:
http://slaout.linux62.org/kirocker/old-changelog.html
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This is the End:
I think I will now return back to Windows, so i'm done with KDE development. I will perhapse help the KDE Windows project in the future, tough.
This project is now abandonned.
I'm afraid it will not be ported to KDE 4, unless new developers pop up.
Why I returned back to Windows:
http://slaout.linux62.org/Why_Windows.html
13 years ago
4.0:
- Theme support with wonderful ones provided by default and a graphical editor that is both powerful and surprisingly easy to use
- Have fun karaokees with automatically-scrolling lyrics
- Added a better no-cover image, from Oxygen (sorry guys, but it's the only beautiful and scalable image I found)
- Now using the "Track, Artist, Album" order (instead of "Artist, Album, Track") to be more complient with other displays, such as iPod, Last.fm, and even Amarok.
- Changed the application icon to a better one, using an Oxygen composition. Also show the icon back in the panel big tooltip, as it cannot be confused with an empty cover image anymore
- Removed a lot of bugs
- Enhanced performances
Browse for new themes:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/search.php?search=Search&text=kirocker
Older list of changes:
http://slaout.linux62.org/kirocker/old-changelog.html
==========================
This is the End:
I think I will now return back to Windows, so i'm done with KDE development. I will perhapse help the KDE Windows project in the future, tough.
This project is now abandonned.
I'm afraid it will not be ported to KDE 4, unless new developers pop up.
Why I returned back to Windows:
http://slaout.linux62.org/Why_Windows.html
gstnet
13 years ago
One thing that I see missing is display of cover images for the Last.fm tracks.
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Sebien
13 years ago
It should be Ok with 3.2.
Anyone to confirm/infirm this?
Make sure that after the installation, you restarted Kicker:
Press Alt+F2 and type the command "killall -sTERM kicker ; kicker"
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gstnet
13 years ago
I did restart kicker and no change.
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Sebien
13 years ago
If the image exists and is well named, then the problem comes from my code.
Please open the file src/informationpoller.cpp and go to the line 270. This line is:
lastFmCover.resize(size, size);
Replace this line with those four ones:
if (size > 0) // The shadow is normally on the bottom and right.
lastFmCover.resize(size, size);
else
lastFmCover.resize(lastFmCover.width() - 6, lastFmCover.height() - 6);
Please recompile and tell me if it works (it should work!).
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gstnet
13 years ago
Thank you
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gstnet
13 years ago
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Sebien
13 years ago
I can't reproduce your bug of bad artist/album/title. Anyway, I changed the way how Kirocker Music Display retreive those information. So the bug can has been removed in 3.4.
Please test.
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Sebien
13 years ago
I understood you that it was not working on Last.fm radios only.
So, let's try debug it.
The applet is looking for the Last.fm cover at this place:
~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/lastfm_image.png
Does this image exist for you?
Or is it named differently?
What version of Amarok do you have?
Thanks in advance for your help to debug this.
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scream
13 years ago
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Sebien
13 years ago
It would be hidden unless you move your mouse over the applet.
So you will be able to scroll it to change the volume, and still be able to scroll the cover to seek in the track.
And if the volume is changed by another way (global keyboard shortcut, from Amarok)... the slider would automatically show up temporarily.
This would completely eliminate the need of the Amarok OSD.
As a temporar workarround, you can scroll the Amarok system tray icon.
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scream
13 years ago
Though I think that scrolling with the mouse wheel should by DEFAULT change the volume, not the position in the track. This should only happen if you scroll not over the cover but over the position bar. Really, changing the position in a track is one of the things people normally never do. And if, they usually have the main interface opened anyway because they're searching through a couple of files.
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joth666
13 years ago
Just one question...I get the album-cover art in the kicker without a problem, but is it normal that it doesn't show in the pop-up you get if you let the mouse hover over the applet? Or the number of stars you've assigned the song for that matter. In the pop-up I only get amarok's standard no-cover image albeit with a yellow star centered over it.
Not a big problem since the information is available in the kicker itself, just struck me as somewhat odd.
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Sebien
13 years ago
I'd better remove it, since it serves no purpose and can be confusing.
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zeltak
13 years ago
Amazing App, i must say i was in love with basket but now this is just awesome!
one sort Question though, is there any chance of getting lyrics in full screen? id would be awesome!
i have no programing skills what so ever but would like to contribute to the project if i can be of help (though i am also a Linux novice)
thx again
Zeltak
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Sebien
13 years ago
But I will wait version 4.0, when there will be configuration.
I would not enable this option by default since it would clutter the full screen mode.
I easily imagine an area with a vertical scrollbar, progressing automatically as the song advance, so you will not have to manually scroll.
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SaikoBee
13 years ago
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Sebien
13 years ago
Bad news: for OSD, I tryed something but it was bugged (and sometimes crashed Kicker). I need a deeper change in the code to make this feature work.
Very good news: the full screen mode can be launched without the applet. In 3.2, there is a KMenu entry for it, or an Amarok script, like AmarokFS. This is all optimized, and you now have date & time in full screen mode!
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CptnObvious999
13 years ago
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Sebien
13 years ago
If it is the case, then just reinstall the version 3.0 on top of the Sabayon Linux one.
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jr83
13 years ago
First, Sometime there is nothing display, i can't see anything.
second, i have a brown background hand the text is black (perfect) but with white all over the letters. I don't know if i can do anything.
to finish, I would like to know if there is a option menu, to change some little thing or not. I have nothing find
Thank you, and one more time, thank you for you program, it's brilliant..!!!
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Sebien
13 years ago
I try to make it "just work" and after that, for version 4.0, I will add options.
I already tryed to make the text outlining of the color of the background image, but the contrast was not as good as black or white.
Perhapse this will be configurable, or I will try something more advanced, like taking the background image dominant color, and lighten it a little if the text is black, or darken it a little if the text is white. This is an idea... It could preserve a good contrast while blending better in the background image. I have to try.
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ChubcMcGee
13 years ago
Second: When playing a last.fm stream the song changes but the track is the same in amarok, so the applet doesn't update. It keeps the title of the song of the first song that is played through the stream. Any plans for a fix on this? If not, no big deal, it still rocks something hard.
Thanks again!
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Sebien
13 years ago
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13 years ago
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13 years ago
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