GSoC 2012 : QMLify Amarok Context View

[Bart Cerneels]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:50, Saurabh Sood <saurabhsood91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a 3rd Year Bachelor's student of Computer Science Student from
> India. I have started work on the GSoC proposal to QML'ify the Amarok
> Context Viewn and have contacted the mentors (Teo` and Stecchino) for
> the same. I have experience in developing Qt Applications, and in
> developing QML Plasma Widgets. I will be coming up with a more
> detailed plan shortly.
>
> I am at present concentrating on brushing up my QML knowledge with
> Data Models, and also using Qt Declarative. I am also studying the
> present code for the applets. My main queries at present are:
>
> 1.) The need to change the present Data Engines

The data engines are plasma. Since our goal is not to depend om plasma
anymore for the context applets, they are not needed anymore. You can
probably use some of the data gathering code though.

> 2.) The extent of Amarok code, I need to be concerned with

src/context/* and later on EngineController (to get current playing track data).