phonon4 qml/videographicsobject

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> we have just been wondering on IRC when and how to freeze phonon4
> development (like officially).
>
> right now all 3 phonon repositories have the following situation:
> 4.6/0.6: stable getting bugfixes ever so often
> master: very few features over 4.6/0.6 plus under-QA'd graphicsview/qml1
> support
>
> so to turn master into 4.7 we will have to do one of the following
> a) deactivate the qml1 bits and release
> b) complete code review + api review (the present api, or rather the exposed
> symbols needed by it is not very nice) + launch at least one rc and allow
> testing for >=1 month
>
> with a) we can do a release in perhaps a week, with b) we'd be looking at
> march or even april.
>
> now personally I am not convinced of the use nor quality of the qml stuff
> (although it works for me...). it has been in master for more than half a
> year and I have yet to get viable feedback on it at all. additionally only
> the plasma media center people have expressed actual interest in p4 with
> qml.
>
> if we were already on qt5 with qml2 this would be a no-brainer, however with
> qt4 and the graphicsview doing fast high-quality video playback is a tricky
> thing to do (right) and so even after review and a release candidate we'd
> still be looking at the possibility of ongoing support of the new api should
> some application pick it up.
>
> all that being said I personally would rather drop qml support entirely from
> the phonon4 feature scope and instead push phonon4 asap into maintenance
> mode so all the more focused work on phonon5 can start.
>
> does anyone have strong reasons to release the qml stuff for phonon4?

Dragon Player 3? :D

You could keep it in, just slap an 'experimental' on the QML module
name. Unless that isn't risk free for non-QML usage?

Ian