Bringing Cantata under the KDE umbrella?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 20.02.23 um 22:45 schrieb Justin Zobel:
> "Music player" daemon

Cantata is the client and don't play anything itself

but what do i expect from someone converting text mails to HTML, post a 
one-liner on top of inline-quotes and use reply-all on a 
maling-list...........

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