introduction and questions

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello,

our emails were sent almost at the same time.

On samedi 28 novembre 2020 23:39:18 CET Nate Graham wrote:
> Glad you're enjoying Elisa! And yes, I am fairly confident that we would
> consider a merge request to delete files. :)

My fear here is that we keep working on a pseudo-file manager inside Elisa with 
a result that would be never really good.

If we can find a solution in Elisa without having it turned into a music 
collection manager (think MusicBrainz's Picard), I will be happy.

I have personally very different requirements when organizing my music 
collection and when playing music from it. I would enjoy a tabular interface 
grouped by albums with a way to collapse/expand them.

Massive tag edition should be made easy.

I could continue forever ...

> 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.

That made me realize that Konversation was not running and I was not online.

> 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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