Release 0.2.0

[Diego Gangl]

Hey,

I did some grammar/typo tweaks. I've put this in a google doc so you guys can edit it too.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mEqrO_zjchr6_EQOVyJSrSy7CKVtcWCO0BEkUpBnGpI/edit?usp=sharing

Cheers,

On lunes, 2 de julio de 2018 12:44:00 -03 Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Matthieu Gallien
> 
> 
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