introduction and questions

[Nate Graham]

Glad you're enjoying Elisa! And yes, I am fairly confident that we would 
consider a merge request to delete files. :)

There's no official Elisa chatroom, though perhaps there should be one. 
Discussions generally take place in #kde-devel right now, or in the 
comment sections of bug reports and merge requests.

Feel free to get hacking and start working on Elisa! :)

Nate


On 11/26/20 2:50 AM, Be wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been going between a handful of music player applications since I
> got my current laptop ~2.5 years ago with a 3840 x 2160 screen and the
> Amarok Qt5 port was never finished so it doesn't scale to high pixel
> density screens. I've mostly been using Rhythmbox even though I find its
> GUI quite bland and a little awkward -- it does job. I was using
> Lollypop for a while which was quite interesting. I stopped using
> Lollypop after the lead developer was bizarrely stubborn and refused to
> merge a feature to delete files from the application (
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/lollypop/-/issues/605 ). I tried Elisa
> then but found it too buggy at the time for daily use and went back to
> Rhythmbox.
> 
> I just gave Elisa another try and it's coming along well. I'm really
> impressed by the beautiful adaptive design. It makes me want a Librem 5
> even more. :)
> 
> I installed 20.08.3 from Flathub and opened a few feature requests and
> bug reports. I built Elisa from the master Git branch to check if some
> of the bugs I found were already fixed. Unfortunately when I built it
> locally, the GUI is very slow. I don't know if this is because of a bug
> in Elisa or my system. I'm running Fedora 33 with Qt 5.15.1 and KDE
> Frameworks 5.75.0. I see these messages repeated in the console output
> with the local build:
> 
> qrc:/qml/ContextView.qml:269:37: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
> Qt Quick Layouts: Polish loop detected. Aborting after two iterations.
> 
> I can reproduce the slowness when I build the v20.08.3 tag locally. I
> don't see the above messages in the console output.
> 
> Also, if I build the CMake install target as I usually do to install to
> ~/local, Elisa fails to load the QML files. I searched the Qt
> documentation if there is some environment variable to tell it where to
> search but did not find anything. If I run the binary from the CMake
> build directory it works.
> 
> QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
> qrc:/qml/ElisaMainWindow.qml:12:1: module "org.kde.elisa" is not installed
> 
> I was a KDE user for many (10?) years before I got my current laptop and
> switched to GNOME for the better high pixel density support. I still use
> some KDE applications, particularly KDevelop. I wrote a little JS plugin
> for Amarok years ago before I learned C++ but I haven't contributed code
> to KDE before.
> 
> Most of the coding I do is for Mixxx where I am a maintainer. Mixxx also
> uses C++ and Qt. The GUI uses a home-baked XML layout system for
> QWidgets that predates Qt's .ui files. We're planning on experimenting
> with QML for some upcoming features which might eventually lead to
> redoing the main window in QML. I haven't worked with QML before so
> maybe I can learn by working on Elisa. :)
> 
> Is there any chat system for Elisa or is this mailing list the primary
> means of communication? I looked for an Elisa room on the KDE Matrix
> server but there is not one.
> 
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