Review Request: New context menu applet to display guitar and bass-tablature

[Rainer Sigle]

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(Updated 2010-11-01 18:36:05.208956)


Review request for Amarok.


Changes
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- fixed applet from stop working after removing and re-adding
- fixed reload-dialog resizing and splitter-issues
- applet collapses now either when either playback is stopped or no tabs were found. Pls. let me know what you think of this behaviour.
- replaced "+" string-concatenation with append()-function
- added further comments, removed debug-spam


Summary
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This patch adds a new applet to the Amarok context menu: "Tabs". It's designed for guitar and bass-players, as it downloads and displays tablature information for the current song. Directly playing along a song has therefore never been easier.

The tab data is currently fetched from two sites: www.ultimateguitar.com and www.fretplay.com. As these provide no direct API, the tab data is extracted using some simple HTML parsing. Multiple results, e.g. versions of the tab, are stored and can be choosen from a list. A settings dialog allows to define the type of tabs to be fetched. In this patch we've guitar and bass, but it could be extended to e.g. drums or piano in the future. Furthermore I've added a reload button which allows to easily refine the criteria for the tab-search. This can be used e.g. when no tab-results were found because the song name contains fragments like (live), remix, etc.

I'll send some new png-images to amarok devel mailinglist because I was not able to correctly include these binary files into the patch. Please be aware that I don't know if there are any copyright restrictions on these bitmaps! Maybe they can be replaced with some KDE/Plasma specific images. Unfortunately I didn't find anything appropriate.

Thanks for any feedback on this...

By the way: Also big Thanks! to all Amarok devs and supporters for their great work. I love this application.


Diffs (updated)
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  src/context/applets/CMakeLists.txt 98bdd2b 
  src/context/applets/tabs/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/ReloadEditDialog.ui PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsApplet.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsApplet.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsItem.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsItem.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsSettings.ui PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsView.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/TabsView.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/amarok-context-applet-tabs.desktop PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/amarok-tabs-bass.png PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/amarok-tabs-drum.png PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/amarok-tabs-guitar.png PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/applets/tabs/amarok-tabs-piano.png PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/engines/CMakeLists.txt c1f029e 
  src/context/engines/tabs/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/engines/tabs/TabsEngine.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/engines/tabs/TabsEngine.cpp PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/engines/tabs/TabsInfo.h PRE-CREATION 
  src/context/engines/tabs/amarok-data-engine-tabs.desktop PRE-CREATION 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100117/diff


Testing
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used and tested during the last months, works fine for me


Screenshots
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Tabs Applet
  http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100117/s/9/


Thanks,

Rainer

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