Helping porting to KF5 - to Aroonav

[Aroonav Mishra]

Hello Olivier,

On 8 August 2015 at 16:40, Olivier Churlaud <olivier at churlaud.com> wrote:

> Hi , thx for your answers!
>
>
> Le 07/08/2015 20:40, Aroonav Mishra a écrit :
>
>> But right now the biggest concern is the code in src/context on which the
>> view of the application depends. I think that it will have to be ported to
>> QML as KF5 only supports widgets in QML. It will be really nice if someone
>> could pick up the task of porting the code in src/context correctly. I had
>> to comment out the codes that were dependent on the code in src/context as
>> they were causing linking errors and these need to be uncommented as well.
>>
> It what I was thinking. Do we need the QML views to be clones of the
> current ui? Or did people thought of making it evolve and we have to take
> this in account? (I hope not:D)
>
I think that Mark will be able to help you with this. He had mentioned that
he had some ideas regarding the UI layout of amarok 3.0.

> I depend on these errors to guide me on what to do next. So what I do is
>> that, I look at an error and then I look at the porting docs or the Qt5/KF5
>> docs on replacing that now erroneous piece of code. This has worked pretty
>> well for me until now.
>>
> This is exactly what I thought of doing
>
>> It's easier to depend on the errors to guide you on what you have to do
>> next. So on doing so I might first edit the file in say src/browsers and
>> then edit a file in src/dialogs and so there is no link in the order in
>> which I edit the files. I believe that any other approach will take a lot
>> of your time to yield the same result.
>>
>
> I'll go for it... It seems that Mamarok wants to give me some insights or
> advice, so I wait until we speak about it. I saw that the branch was merge
> to amarok/kf5 > I'll go back from here.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier
>
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Cheers
Aroonav.
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