Google Summer of Code: Amarok CD Stack Collection View

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Andreas Schäfer <gentryx at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
>
>  On 11:07 Mon 24 Mar     , Ian Monroe wrote:
>  > The current collection browser isn't going anywhere. Amarok 1.4 has
>  > always had opengl with its analyzers.
>  >
>  > Too early to be worrying about such things.
>
>  Agreed. I do also think that an OpenGL based implementation can be
>  quite efficient.
>
>  What would you guys think about the following schedule?
>  (dates and lengths again in weeks, relative to SoC begin)
>
>  Start-End Length What?
>  --------- ------ --------------------
>  0.0-1.0     1.0  Getting to know Amarok's code, build system etc.
>  1.0-3.0     2.0  Basic album listing widget
>                  (ugly looking, but with drag&drop and scolling)
>  3.0-4.5     1.5  Improved font handling & track listing
>  4.5-6.5     1.0  Implement clickable tabs to expand/collapse
>                  parts of the collection (inline tabs, e.g.
>                  one for each artist)
>  6.5-9.0     1.0  Explore different visualization styles
>                  (e.g. flying covers only)
>  6.5-9.0     1.5  Improved visual presentation
>                  (animation, lighting & shading)
>  9.0-end     3.0  Buffer time (improve performance, clean up code,
>                  add configuration options etc.)

Timeline makes sense. Go ahead and map it to calendar dates though.

Ian