File Browser Branch

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello Alex,

I have just had a try to the file_browser branch and it is really looking 
good. This is really a big contribution to Elisa. Congratulations.

I would like to get this going into master as fast as possible. I have a few 
minor issues I would like to fix directly in the branch. Is it OK for you ?

We should probably start listing the remaining issues for the next release and 
try to fix as much as we can.

I have a somehow working branch for navigating from all genres -> all artists 
with one genre -> all albums from artists -> all tracks from album .

I would like to get your branch in so that I can integrate all those works 
together for the next release.

What do you think ?

On jeudi 17 mai 2018 21:55:31 CEST you wrote:
> Hello Alex,
> 
> On jeudi 17 mai 2018 21:46:52 CEST Alexander Stippich wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I pushed a branch "file_browser" which contains the changes for a simple
> > file browser. It is probably a somewhat naive implementation since my c++
> > skills are still limited, but it seems to work with a couple of issues
> > exposed in Elisa.
> > It only allows browsing the home directory. Only audio files are shown and
> > only viewing is possible. Copy, paste etc. is not implemented. Filtering
> > and sorting is implemented similarly to the other views.
> > 
> > Any help and/or feedback is appreciated, of course.
> 
> I am now focused on ensuring that we get genre and file browsers in the next
> release. I will try to help you as much as I can.
> 
> > It is based on KIO, which provide exactly what is needed. Requiring KIO
> > should not be a problem, since it is available on all platforms (I think
> > even Android is now supported). One could also try to make the file
> > browser
> > optional. QFileSystemModel does not work for this use-case, unfortunately.
> 
> I did not yet checked what is the situation on Android with respect to KIO.
> 
> This could also be an opportunity to have access to webdav support as it has
> been requested several times and could allow to offer a very basic
> integration with Nextcloud.
> 
> > Current issues (that I know of):
> > -Loading of the metadata for the metadata view is blocking. I also don't
> > like the interface I've implemented via the proxy model. Maybe we can
> > create an interface for the trackslistener to offload the scanning?
> > -Files without title, artist and album tags do not work/show up yet
> > correctly. Part of this lies in the issue with the mediaplaylist I
> > mentioned in the previous email. The other is due to Elisa expecting these
> > tags to be present. The scanning function in elisautils currently sets the
> > tracks to invalid if those are missing, but just removing the checks is
> > not
> > sufficient.  Some help here would be great.
> > -The icons for audio files are vertically not center-aligned. This is a
> > breeze icon issue. I've already reported a bug, but no activity so far.
> > -I'm not able to recreate the plugins.qmltypes, it always complaints about
> > "Component not ready"
> 
> The missing file is my fault and missing in the integration of the qml c++
> plugin. I will fix it.
> 
> I may be quite busy the coming week-end but I will do my best to help you on
> that.
> 
> > Best regards,
> > Alex
> > 
> > 
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> Best regards
> 
> --
> Matthieu Gallien