Release 0.2.0

[Alexander Stippich]

Hi,

I only made some minor corrections, I don't have anything to add.

Best regards
Alex

On Montag, 2. Juli 2018 20:58:17 CEST Diego Gangl wrote:
> 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_EQOVyJSrSy7CKVtcWCO0BEkUpB
> nGpI/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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> Diego Gangl
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