introduction and questions

[Be]

I would like to start hacking on Elisa... but that requires getting it
to build locally without being unusably slow.

I think using Zulip for chat has been the best thing we've done for the
growth of the Mixxx community (we only had a barely-used Freenode
channel and a SourceForge mailing list before that). The way Zulip
forces conversations to be organized makes it much easier to pay
attention to what you want, have multiple conversations simultaneously,
and makes it easy to catch up when you've been away for a while. However
I know other KDE projects use Matrix and KDE provides a Matrix server. I
don't know if there's a KDE policy that KDE project should use the KDE
provided infrastructure. Creating a #elisa room on the KDE Matrix server
would make it easy for other KDE contributors to participate.

On 11/28/20 4:39 PM, Nate Graham wrote:
> 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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