Thread: Kagu Media Player Released 1.0.7
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trevarthan is offline trevarthan
2007-09-07 , 18:07
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Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
This most recent exchange, which reflects some of my own confusion (and ineptitude?) gives me the opportunity to ask whether there is yet a primer available that explains all of the Kagu buttons and operations? For me they are not intuitive (and I always have trouble with accurate icon recognition anyway).
No, I don't think it's ineptitude. It's just that Kagu is becoming more mature and therefore more complex. Many applications these days have functionality that most users don't ever use or know about. Kagu probably won't be the exception to that rule as we attempt to satisfy everyone.

We're swamped, so I don't think you'll be seeing anything in the way of a more intuitive UI or context help in the next release. It's on the roadmap, but it's a low priority.

I've already mentioned that it would be nice to have a video walkthrough of Kagu. Anyone from the community is welcome to step up and help us out there. Someone from the community could also start a Wiki page somewhere for help documentation. There are lots of possibilities. The guardiani.us server is reserved for development purposes right now, so I don't plan to open up that wiki to the general public. Any suggestions for a wiki location?


Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
Regarding the following instruction: "Sure, just tap the nowplaying button in the lower right. It takes you to the playlist. Tapping it again will show a zoomed version of the album cover. Tapping a third time give you song seek. And a fourth time brings you back to the nowplaying view." My "tapping a third time" didn't give me a song seek, but instead apparently gave me the screen to choose sound levels.
I don't believe you. It always pulls up seek for me. Has a bunch of items like "0:20", "0:30", etc.


Originally Posted by ascherjim View Post
Also, the album cover for my album of songs by the late German bass Hans Hotter gave me a jazzy one called "Hotter than Hell." Rather amusing.
Yeah, that sucks. Any suggestions for us there? I'm not sure what to do about that other than tell you to use a cover.jpg or something to override the downloaded art.