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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!
12 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
12 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
xxxSWATxxx
11 years ago
You did so a great work .
I hope it is not your last word , and soon you will port it to KDE4 ... (just my hope )
Pity...
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Smarre
11 years ago
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xxxSWATxxx
11 years ago
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GameMage
11 years ago
Best of luck in Windows land!
P.S I too switched to linux because of kde but now I love the whole way linux runs and its other tools. Ironically I've had more problems installing Windows then Linux (and I've installed Linux a lot of times on different machines).
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calleneptuno
12 years ago
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X libraries. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!
Any idea of what can I do?
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nicobrain
12 years ago
its a error message about the missing "xorg-dev" package.
I have found out that you will need the following packages:
xorg-dev
libqt3-mt-dev
kde-devel
But after this ill become an error 2, so i dont have lust to test this app.
P.S: Excuse my bad englisch, iam german
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calleneptuno
12 years ago
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calleneptuno
12 years ago
I will try installing those packs first.
English forgiven from this bad english speaker (mexico-peruvian).
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zeltak
12 years ago
I agree with balakrishnan, kirocker and basket are my 2 fav apps...i have to say i was also shocked but wish you all the best and thank you for all the hard work you put in!!
Zeltak
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balakrishnan
12 years ago
Anyway, thanks for all your effort and best wishes for whatever the future holds for you.
(and let's hope that someday soon you will return...till then, au revoir)
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groo
12 years ago
gutsy gibbon will be available in getdeb.net as soon as the site admin updates it.
enjoy :)
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the7erm
12 years ago
However ... some suggestions.
Instead of having F1-F5 being the keys you press to rate on full screen you should use 1-5 (I hacked my version to do this).
I have a remote that is a basically a usb keyboard, and being able to press 1 - 5 across the room make more sense.
The other thing I wanted to mention is that the stars on the tool bar are way too small - my sight isn't the greatest. I have to get way to close to the screen to even see them. So much so that it takes less time to just pop open amarok and click the rating. The whole point of having an applet like this is to quickly rate a song.
I can tell you put a lot of work into this, and for that I thank you. Keep up the good work.
Please make the stars bigger for those of us who can't see too well.
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logixoul
12 years ago
Thank you for all your work, best of luck.
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apolodor
12 years ago
Thanks for your work so far.
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Sebien
12 years ago
It was really stable, just lacked a few polishments only me could notice (I'm somewhat strict about fit&finish).
As soon as I will have a Linux working back again I will repackage it properly.
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mathpr
12 years ago
works great on my opensuse 10.2
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Smarre
12 years ago
http://slaout.linux62.org/kirocker/downloads/kirocker-4.0.tar.gz seems to work.
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Sebien
12 years ago
This is solved.
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freefred
12 years ago
and now with themes, lyrics..wow.
I wanna only thank you for this wonderful app.
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zionazz
12 years ago
Now to the subject - because kirocker reads cover art from (as I suppose) amarok cache and I have no files in folder '.../amarok/albumcovers/large' and images in folder '.../amarok/albumcovers/cache' are only 130x130px, album covers in full screen mode still look bad.
To solve this problem I wrote small script in python, that links original album cover file to '.../amarok/albumcovers/large' folder (appropriately named, of course), so that it can be read in full size and takes just little bit of disk space.
sript is here - http://zionazz.ovh.org/scripts/coverlink.py. Before use, delete all covers from '.../amarok/albumcovers/large' folder, that you want to be replaced by links (or move them somewhere else for backup). Remember it only works for covers you have on disk and not those downloaded by amarok.
PS: For now script is very simple and looks only for files (.jpg, .png, .gif), that contains any of following words - 'folder', 'front', 'cover'. It takes first file found. Though I can add some more sophisticated options, if it will be of any use for you.
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prizident
12 years ago
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loak
12 years ago
However, it's probably the only app which you can put into a KDE panel and has acceptable look and functionality. Aside Kirocker, there's nothing, you can't even get a good clocks, calendar or weather report. It seems almost nobody seriously uses the KDE panel as a side panel. So I left KDE side panel for Screenlets. It doesn't work as a retractable/hidable panel (thumb up for KDE panel), however at least it has a large selection of applets and looks great.
So it would be great to see Kirocker ported to the Screenlets as well, because it is a great applet and would have therer way more users!
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Sebien
12 years ago
It will be an hard work enough to port it to KDE 4 and Plasma.
I think Plasma will solve your problem, with plasmoids being able to be used in panels.
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toom77
12 years ago
http://tomas.krivda.eu/pub/kirocker_4.0Beta3-1tk_amd64.deb
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dunkelstern
12 years ago
It will be included in KDEmod as it stabilizes and posted on kde-look too.
So no further "hack" modifying the kicker background by using your background image.
Just for your information :)
And... Kirocker rocks! Keep it up!
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