Bringing Cantata under the KDE umbrella?

[Justin Zobel]

"Music player" daemon.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, 1:15 am Reindl Harald, <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

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> Am 20.02.23 um 15:18 schrieb Aleix Pol:
> > From a product description perspective it definitely is a music
> > player. MPD is an implementation detail.
>
> that must be why the first page of the settings is "library" with the
> IP-Adress of your mpd server and other then you i am using mpd/canata
> for many years :-)
>
> https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata
> About: Qt5 Graphical MPD Client
>
> don't get me wrong but do you even know what MPD is?
> https://www.musicpd.org/
>
> a music player / server without any interface, the interface is by
> definition a seperate application like canatata or android apps
> connecting to mpd via tcp which can run on localhost but don't need to
>
> >> Am 20.02.23 um 13:18 schrieb Aleix Pol:
> >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 12:28 AM Heiko Becker <heiko.becker at kde.org>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sunday, 19 February 2023 23:36:22 CET, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>>>> El diumenge, 19 de febrer de 2023, a les 16:29:24 (CET), Heiko
> Becker va
> >>>>> escriure:
> >>>>>> Cantata is a Qt based MPD client, which was archived by its
> >>>>>> original author
> >>>>>> [1]. I started some porting to Qt6 but I wondered (and was asked in
> >>>>>> #kde-devel today) if it would make sense to move it to KDE's
> >>>>>> infrastructure? Despite being archived, it still works quite
> >>>>>> nicely. And ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My only 2 concerns are:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    * Is anyone going to work on it? I guess you?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes.
> >>>
> >>> Part of the incubation process is to gather what's the team working on
> it.
> >>> https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/DescriptionTemplate
> >>>
> >>> It feels wrong to incubate a project that is already out of
> >>> development. Especially when we already have a number of music
> >>> players...
> >>
> >> Cantata isn't a "music player"
> >> it's the by far best MPD client
>
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