smallish project needed

[Mark]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
>>> juk should be a lightweigth music player, while amarok should be an
>>> all-featured media player. I say should because juk is in a stage
>>> where it's not lightweigth, for the code there needs much love. that
>>> said, juk is part of KDE software, while Amarok does not follow the
>>> KDE rules to be part of the official package. ( same release dates for
>>> instance )
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher
>>>> <lydia.pintscher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 03:15, Michael Pyne <mpyne at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday, August 08, 2011 18:44:40 Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
>>>>>>> Juk is an easy target, and in need of love.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Honestly I was going to recommend the same thing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't agree that it's (all) easy (although there is certainly a lot of "low-
>>>>>> hanging fruit"), but it does have the advantage that I'm at least available by
>>>>>> email to help guide/mentor.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In addition I will be completing school very soon, which hopefully should add
>>>>>> some time per day (although that may be offset by the new job I will be
>>>>>> rotating to soon which will probably involve a longer commute).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Either way, JuK could use some love, there's still someone mostly-active who
>>>>>> can show interested parties around the codebase and I should have piped in on
>>>>>> one of these requests awhile ago (but I've always assumed someone else has
>>>>>> need the help more ;( )
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks guys. I've suggested him to take a look at JuK.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Lydia
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lydia Pintscher
>>>>> KDE Community Working Group member
>>>>> http://kde.org - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Just wondering, but why is there Amorok and JuK? Surely Amarok can do
>>>> everything JuK can right?
>>>> JuK even looks "a bit" like Amarok.
>>>> No pun intended!
>>>>
>>>> Thanx,
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ah oke. Just some idea i have now.. Right now someone is working on a
>> Phonon QML thing. Wouldn't it be best for JuK to be (mostly) rewritten
>> using the phonon QML thing? I mean, KDE 5 seems to be going towards
>> QML, Dolphin seems to go in that direction and Dragon 3 is already
>> using QML : http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/dragon-player-3/
>>
>> Just some random thought..
>>
>> And how do i even need to see YuK? As a foobar alternative for KDE?
>
> Dolphin is going in the QML direction?
> Yes, I think a Juk rewritten in QML could be a good thing.
>
>> Thanx,
>> Mark
>>
>

Well, in that direction.. it's not written in QML or anything.. :
http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html