Release 0.2.0

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello,

On dimanche 1 juillet 2018 23:20:37 CEST you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have tagged a 0.2.0 release out of the 0.2 branch. The tarballs are being
> uploaded.
> 
> Thanks to all the people having contributed to it.
> 
> I think this will be an interesting increment over the previous stable
> version.
> 
> Here is a draft of the release announcement. Please help me improve it.
> 
> The Elisa team is happy to announce our first release, version 0.2.0.
> 
> Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be
> simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to
> account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.
> 
> We focus on a very good integration with the Plasma desktop of the KDE
> community without compromising the support for other platforms (other Linux
> desktop environments, Windows and Android).
> 
> We are creating a reliable product that is a joy to use and respects our
> users privacy. As such, we will prefer to support online services where
> users are in control of their data.
> 
> Since the first release of Elisa, we have been busy improving it. We added
> new music browsing views (home directory browser and a genre browser). We
> improved the interface and the general performance. A lot of smaller item
> have been also done (full change log
> https://community.kde.org/Elisa/ChangeLog.0.2.0).
> 
> == Browsing Views ==
> 
> All views are now by default sorted ascending. A button also allows to
> change the order.
> 
> A new view allows to browse your home directory. Only music files and
> directory are shown. This way, people with missing music tags can easily
> play it.
> 
> A new view allows to browse the music by going from genres to artists, their
> albums and its tracks.
> 
> We plan to further improve the browsing to allow users to choose the wat to
> browse their music.
> 
> == Interface ==
> 
> Elisa has now a proper icon. Thanks a lot to Paul Lesur to have contributed
> it.
> 
> The player bar is now featuring all controls of music playback. The look of
> the play list view and the selector of views have been refreshed and
> improved.
> 
> Use the new icons from Breeze to differentiate between actions (play, pause,
> ..) and states (playing, paused, ...).
> 
> == Performance ==
> 
> To avoid scanning files for changes at start, Elisa now keeps the last
> modified time of files. Users not relying on Baloo should see a huge
> improvement at application start.
> 
> The browsing views are now only loaded when shown. This is a first step to
> reduce the memory usage. It should also speedup application start.
> 
> == Miscellaneous ==
> 
> Elisa is now finding much more cover images and most common cases should
> work.
> 
> There have been a few fix on Mpris2 support.
> 
> There have been various fixes to the internal tracks database.
> 
> The team would like to thank everyone who contributed to the development of
> Elisa, including code contributions, testing, and bug reporting.
> 
> We are already working on new features for the next releases. If you enjoy
> using Elisa, please consider becoming a contributor yourself. We are happy
> for any support!
> 
> We have tagged some tasks as junior jobs. They are a perfect way to start
> contributing to Elisa (https://phabricator.kde.org/project/board/193/)
> 
> Elisa source code tarball is available here.

The sources are now available and flatpak and Windows installers are being 
built.

Let's get the release announcement ready for publication.

Best regards

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Matthieu Gallien