
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
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
==========================
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
Superstoned
12 years ago
One feature request:
Random theme choosing please ;-)
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Sebien
12 years ago
So it's no hurge.
And version 4.0.0 will not be very polished for everyday use, I suppose. At least, I think I will not jump in that train quickly.
But I will port Kirocker Music Display a little before KDE 4.0.0. Say at the start of december.
While waiting KDE 4, I want to deliver new features to the biggest number of people, this means releasing KDE 3 versions.
Don't worry: I will continue tu develop it :-)
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darknight
12 years ago
However I have a minor problem, the applet is slightly too high for me. Could you add some option to scale the cd cover?
If there's already one I didn't find it.
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Sebien
12 years ago
The cover still has to be visible.
Do you have an horizontal or vertical panel? What size?
It's to try to understand the need for this option.
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darknight
12 years ago
Usually it's ok, but if I start to plug in usb sticks for example the panel will grow vertically and go under the docked applications.
Have a look here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=65314
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Sebien
12 years ago
I'll add an option.
I don't know yet if it will be an hidden option or not.
Having such a big panel is very uncommon.
But people could also want to limitate the width of the applet if they have a tall horizontal panel. So why not...
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BSDKaffee
12 years ago
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fradeve11
12 years ago
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Sebien
12 years ago
You can download version 3.4.1 with the bug & crash fixes!
It doesn't include the amazing new feature I was talking about on my previous post... You'll have to wait :-P
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Sebien
12 years ago
But today I tryed a playlist with 600 songs and BINGO.
I've got your problem, found it and fixed it!
=> Large playlists no longer make the interface to stop responding, or do mad things. It should be faster... Even if will not be as snappy as small playlists, but this is a problem that must be solved by Amarok 2.
=> There is also a second good news: by testing very large playlists I finally found and solved a crash problem, reported long time ago but that I wasn't able to reproduce.
I think that after those two fixes, Kirocker Music Display should be solid rock!
I'm going to make a new tarball as soon as possible. But I promess nothing, because my code is messed up with a new (A-MA-ZING) feature I've already began to code.
Note: I do not have Beryl, so please test the changes and tell me if the problems are still there. Or please send screenshots or more detailed information or how in what circumstances the cover bug occurs...
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Superstoned
12 years ago
Suggestion: mnaybe lyrics in the mainmode?!?
Thanx for all the work!
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Sebien
12 years ago
Here are all the planned big features:
- Themes (background image, colors)
- Volume slider
- Party Lock
- Lyrics
- Multiple screens support
- Visualisation
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coling
12 years ago
Just trying this out and it crashes when I try to run kirocker. I can't generate a backtrace with debug symbols installed as it says it's just all messed up and is probably due to a corrupted stack. I'm guessing something big is trying to be squeezed into a small variable when compiled for x86_64..... Backtrace w/o debugging symbols below may help but if it is a stack thing then it may be a red herring :/
#5 0x00002af2c05db0cf in DcopInterface::getBool ()
from /usr/lib64/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#6 0x00002af2c05ce89f in AmarokApi::screenSaverEnabled ()
from /usr/lib64/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#7 0x00002af2c05db9b7 in FullScreen::windowActivationChange ()
from /usr/lib64/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#8 0x00002af2c2078eb3 in QWidget::event ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#9 0x00002af2c1ff2fd3 in QApplication::internalNotify ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#10 0x00002af2c1ff3abe in QApplication::notify ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#11 0x00002af2c0f85d8d in KApplication::notify ()
from /usr/lib64/libkdecore.so.4
#12 0x00002af2c1ff6c93 in QApplication::setActiveWindow ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#13 0x00002af2c1f9b5cb in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#14 0x00002af2c1faa069 in QEventLoop::processEvents ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#15 0x00002af2c2006b31 in QEventLoop::enterLoop ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0x00002af2c20069e2 in QEventLoop::exec ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3
#17 0x0000000000402b95 in ?? ()
#18 0x00002af2c6b7dac4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#19 0x0000000000402459 in QPixmap::metric ()
#20 0x00007fffeb731568 in ?? ()
#21 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
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Sebien
12 years ago
It was triggered mainly with using a large playlist, isn't it?
Anyway, *I released version 3.4.1 that fix the bug*!
You can download it right now, and it should crash anymore.
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coling
12 years ago
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Sebien
12 years ago
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coling
12 years ago
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inckie
12 years ago
Instead of
Quote:killall -sTERM kicker ; kicker
Wouldn't it be better to
Quote:dcop kicker default restart
to restart kicker?
(My 2¢)
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Sebien
12 years ago
I've updated the instructions.
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linmain
12 years ago
pidkicker=$(pidof kicker)
kill -TERM 0$pidkicker
while [ -f /proc/$pidkicker/environ ]
do
sleep 0.1s
done
kicker
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linmain
12 years ago
i would recommend you to use the killall method. it is much cleaner and call destructors the way they should.
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joe81
12 years ago
anyway, it has just crashed, making kicker crashing too.
This is the backtrace, hope it can help:
#6 0xb754a002 in operator>> () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#7 0xb6ab3ee9 in DCOPProcessMessage (iceConn=0x80820c8,
clientObject=0x8081950, opcode=3, length=43, replyWait=0xbfec1138,
replyWaitRet=0xbfec10c4)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:370
#8 0xb6ac4273 in KDE_IceProcessMessages (iceConn=0x80820c8,
replyWait=0xbfec11c8, replyReadyRet=0xbfec1218)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/KDE-ICE/process.c:326
#9 0xb6aaf669 in DCOPClient::callInternal (this=0x8080700,
remApp=@0xbfec13f8, remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8,
data=@0xbfec13d0, replyStruct=0xbfec1274, useEventLoop=false, timeout=-1,
minor_opcode=2) at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1931
#10 0xb6aaf94d in DCOPClient::callInternal (this=0x8080700,
remApp=@0xbfec13f8, remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8,
data=@0xbfec13d0, replyType=@0xbfec13d8, replyData=@0xbfec13c8,
useEventLoop=false, timeout=-1, minor_opcode=2)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1821
#11 0xb6ab4397 in DCOPClient::call (this=0x8080700, remApp=@0xbfec13f8,
remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8, data=@0xbfec13d0,
replyType=@0xbfec13d8, replyData=@0xbfec13c8, useEventLoop=false,
timeout=-1) at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1765
#12 0xb6ab43f7 in DCOPClient::call (this=0x8080700, remApp=@0xbfec13f8,
remObjId=@0xbfec13f0, remFun=@0xbfec13e8, data=@0xbfec13d0,
replyType=@0xbfec13d8, replyData=@0xbfec13c8, useEventLoop=false)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1730
#13 0xb6ab611d in DCOPClient::isApplicationRegistered (this=0x8080700,
remApp=@0xbfec1480)
at /root/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7/./dcop/dcopclient.cpp:1225
#14 0xb2f4d176 in DcopInterface::isApplicationRegistered ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#15 0xb2f5071e in InformationPoller::failed ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#16 0xb2f531eb in InformationPoller::poll ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
#17 0xb2f53851 in InformationPoller::qt_invoke ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/kirocker_panelapplet.so
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NabLa
12 years ago
Just a wish... Last.fm :) it would be brilliant to be able to ban/love/skip a track when listening to Last.fm on Amarok, and also to display the cover :)
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Sebien
12 years ago
And now (version 3.4), the Last.fm cover is working for everybody. There was a little bug in the previous version (version 3.2).
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aaronm67
12 years ago
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