Version: (using KDE 4.2.96) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages It appears that Amarok is not using a desktop and distro independent way of installing codecs. If has been suggested on the *buntu bugtracker that Amarok should use packagekit to check for useful codecs instead of using update-notifier-kde to prompt for restricted codecs install. See this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/346246
*** Bug 189665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Dotan, there is no way we could do that, for obvious reasons: we don't make packages at all :). We provide the tarball of the application, it's up to the packagers of the distributions to provide the necessary codecs and links to get the codecs installed.
Thank you, Myriam. I am a bit confused as *buntu seems to insist that it is a KDE issue. Could you please take a look at the downstream bug and try to make sense of what they are saying? I would like to see this issue resolved, and the *buntu devs might just need a hint as to what they are doing wrong, or maybe you (or I if you tell me) can tell them why this is not KDE's responsibility. Thanks.
FYI, we are also discussing this issue on our developer mailing list: http://lists.kde.org/?t=124834372100001&r=1&w=2