Elisa is in kdereview
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Sun Jun 25 17:29:45 BST 2017
El dimecres, 21 de juny de 2017, a les 23:15:58 CEST, Matthieu Gallien va
escriure:
> 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.
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Albert
>
> [...]
>
> By the way, did you build Elisa with Baloo ?
Yes
Cheers,
Albert
>
> Best regards
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