<div dir="ltr">Hi Shantanu,<div><br></div><div>Great work! I will test out the branch soon and would let you know if I find something :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Akshay</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaan7in@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaan7in@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hey,<br>
<br>
Thanks for testing, really appreciate that. Also, unless somebody has<br>
any objection, I will merge this to master tomorrow evening IST. Next,<br>
I'll create bug reports for the minor nitpicks that are there and we<br>
can pick them up :)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
--<br>
Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)<br>
<a href="http://www.shantanutushar.com" target="_blank">http://www.shantanutushar.com</a><br>
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</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 9/26/13, Sinny Kumari <<a href="mailto:ksinny@gmail.com">ksinny@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Shantanu,<br>
><br>
> Thank you so much for putting so much effort on re-factoring fabian's<br>
> branch. I checked almost all major/minor features which i remember and all<br>
> of them works absolutely fine. There are some UI issues which can be fixed<br>
> later, but functionality wise most of the stuff works fine.<br>
><br>
> If needed you can wait for getting feedback from other community people as<br>
> well. From my side, you can merge into master :)<br>
><br>
> Cheers!<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha<br>
> <<a href="mailto:shantanu@kde.org">shantanu@kde.org</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> * tl;dr *<br>
>> There is new refactored code in fabian-refactoring-shantanu which should<br>
>> be functionally same as master. Please take some time, test it and report<br>
>> if it works fine, or if a major feature is broken.<br>
>><br>
>> * Long version *<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks to Fabian, we had started refactoring Plasma Media Center's media<br>
>> browsing code so as to create more reusable components. Finally this is<br>
>> complete with all major functionality working.<br>
>><br>
>> The code for this lies in the branch fabian-refactoring-shantanu . The<br>
>> salient features are-<br>
>><br>
>> 1. Backends can now expose multiple models instead of just one. The media<br>
>> browser is smart enough to understand how to display these. See #2. There<br>
>> is 100% backwards compatibility in the sense that older backends with<br>
>> only<br>
>> one model will continue to work, internally stored as a list of just one<br>
>> model.<br>
>><br>
>> 2. We now have the following reusable components throughout PMC-<br>
>> * GridBrowser - as the name says, give it a backend/model and it will<br>
>> show<br>
>> items in a grid<br>
>> * ListBrowser - same as above, but a list<br>
>> * SplitBrowser - can show two browsers side-by-side for two models<br>
>> * TabBrowser - takes a backend and list of models and shows a browser for<br>
>> each model in tabs<br>
>> * SmartBrowser - give it a model or a list of models, and it figures out<br>
>> which of the above browsers to use<br>
>><br>
>> 3. Due to these changes, method calls like expand, search etc now take a<br>
>> parameter to the model on which they need to operate. There is 100%<br>
>> backwards compatibility where if the parameter is not present, the first<br>
>> model is picked up.<br>
>><br>
>> 4. Search can now operate on individual models, giving you support to<br>
>> search any model in your backend. See #3<br>
>><br>
>> 5. *Best of all* We can throw all the custom/duplicated code for All<br>
>> Music<br>
>> backend as generic browsers in #2 take care of that. (1006 less lines of<br>
>> code!)<br>
>><br>
>> What do we need? Well if you get some time, please checkout the branch<br>
>> fabian-refactoring-shantanu , test it to make sure no major features are<br>
>> broken. Note, there are still few minor keyboard/UI issues which I will<br>
>> create bug reports for once merged to master.<br>
>><br>
>> What next? I eagerly wait for comments on how the new browsers work, and<br>
>> unless some major feature is broken, I will go ahead and merge with<br>
>> master<br>
>> this weekend, or earlier if people try out and find no issues.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks!<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)<br>
>> <a href="http://www.shantanutushar.com" target="_blank">http://www.shantanutushar.com</a><br>
>><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Akshay
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