Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

[Алексей Андреев]

Hello! I've probably missed some previous conversations, but how about take
a look at mopidy and deskop client for this music server? [1]

[1] https://www.mopidy.com/

чт, 30 июля 2015 г. в 14:30, Teo Mrnjavac <teo at kde.org>:

> On Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:42:14 Stefan Derkits wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > in discussions during Akademy 2015 we found out that while we have with
> > Plasma 5 a Desktop that has a modern & consistent look, the state of
> > some applications isn't that good. And we want to change that.
> >
> > At the moment KDE has no up-to-date music player. JuK is very simple to
> > use, but lacking a modern design. Amarok is and will stay the
> > swiss-knife of KDE music players, but also lacking a modern design and
> > may be too complicated for new users.
> >
> > So let's make a new music player, a successor especially to JuK &
> Bangarang.
> > A music player not for power users or music enthusiasts that want/need
> 100s
> > of features in a player but a simple player designed & made for users of
> > the Plasma 5 Desktop.
> >
> > What do we already have:
> > -) A design vision by the VDG including UI mockups & user stories [0]
> >
> > What do we need:
> > -) More People to discuss & flesh out the vision [1]
> > -) A motivated team of designers, software architects, coders & testers,
> > dedicated to creating a modern music player for our users
> >
> > This music player should not replace Amarok or other great Qt-based
> > music players like Tomahawk or Clementine, as their feature set is much
> > bigger than this new music player should ever have.
> >
> > So if you are interested, contact me either in person on Akademy, on IRC
> > (HorusHorrendus @ freenode) or via mail (stefan [at] derkits.at)
> >
>
> Excellent idea, a no-nonsense "thing that opens audio files" is much
> needed.
>
> Have you thought about picking up and taking over Amarok? A quick look at
> the
> commit log for the past few months suggests that it's essentially
> unmaintained, so if it keeps this pace it's unlikely to stay the
> swiss-knife
> of music players as you suggest.
>
> This stuff is hard and time consuming so I think it makes sense to reuse
> code.
>
> While Amarok does have a sizeable feature set, a good portion of those
> features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated. Perhaps by taking
> over as maintainer, yanking out all the cruft and taking UX hints from the
> VDG
> you could get a modern and pretty music player up and running more quickly
> and
> easily than jumping into the umpteenth "magic rewrite that will fix all
> things
> forever". You could cut down on the feature set significantly, and present
> the
> features that you don't remove in a much better way.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Teo Mrnjavac
> http://teom.org | teo at kde.org
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