The multimedia meeting is now in full swing, twenty people have gathered in the south of the
rainy Netherlands to discuss, design, meet, program and have fun. After a keynote and a short
introduction round, Matthias has given a detailed overview over Phonon, discussing the design,
explaining how to write frontends, what to consider when building a backend, how effect work and
much more. Matthias will upload his slides later tonight so everyone can have a look at the great
stuff to come.
After Matthias outlined the future of KDE multimedia called Phonon, Max Howell gave us
information about what the amarok guys have discussed yesterday while going out in Amsterdam,
Exciting stuff to come! There probably won’t be an amarok 1.5. The developers plan to do a major
redesign of the code for amarok 2.0 which will be Qt4 / KDE 4 based. More interesting to the user
might be the planned improvement of last.fm support. Why would you
want to tag everything yourself when fellow music lovers already did all the work. Max also
announced “We do want to make a Windows version.”.
Maarten en Jurieen of Source21 fame visited us to
record a couple of interviews with, they’ll be downloadable from their website soon – we’ll announce
that separately.
And I also took photos.
In other news:
- Allan just blogged that he’s
planning to add seeking to KIO, which I think is very exciting since it will make KIO useful for so
much more stuff – think of remotely using your music collection using KIO, running digikam on the
local machine - Linux 2.6.17-rc5 is called “Lordi Rules”
- Icecream is a nice
toy
