Elisa is in kdereview

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Matthieu Gallien
<gallien.matthieu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> On mercredi 21 juin 2017 23:01:23 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> El divendres, 16 de juny de 2017, a les 22:44:03 CEST, Matthieu Gallien va
>>
>> escriure:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Elisa is now in kdereview and aiming for extragear/multimedia.
>> >
>> > It is a music player from a design from Andrew Lake.
>> > It is using Qt multimedia for playback and a few KDE frameworks. Its UI is
>> > using Qml.
>> >
>> > Its aim is to be simple to use and hopefully in the future powerfull when
>> > needed.
>> >
>> > It should be usable without needing online services but will use them in
>> > the future.
>> >
>> > A few integration bits are missing with respect to Baloo before I can do a
>> > release. Currently music can only be read if in its database that can be
>> > filled by Baloo or a custom file indexer if Baloo is not there.
>>
>> That's kind of a weird design decision, basically i started elisa, it didn't
>> see any of my music, i didn't find a way to add it, so i removed elisa.
>
> It is not a design decision but the current state. I want to also support the
> "let's play this file now" use case. I just had not yet enough time to do it.
>
> I am also planning to add a "busy" indicator to show that Elisa is currently
> getting tracks from Baloo or default music directory (as per QStandardPaths).
> If no music is found, I also want to add a passive notification offering the
> possibility to configure the path to use to search music. I even have a task in
> phabricator for that.
>
>> That'd be my workflow as a regular user.
>
> I am already convinced that first impression is important. At the same time, I
> did request to move to extragear to get covered by CI and to get feedback from
> kde-core-devel.

I think it's fine. Not perfect, but good enough for starters.
The error case handling could definitely be better (no baloo database,
indexing in progress, baloo disabled, baloo broken, no music in
database).

User experience quirks aside, Elisa seems to be in really good shape.
Builds. Plays music. I18n seems to be in order as well.

HS