Which applications does the Plasma team recommend to use with Plasma?

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 12.07.2016 12:59, Ivan Čukić wrote:

>> Music player: VLC (I've taken form the thread that people feel Cantata's
>> benefits over VLC do not outweigh its downsides)
> The fact that people mentioned that Cantata has downsides is not
> really a +1 for VLC - it is not like VLC is the only alternative to
> Cantata (IMO, it is not an alternative at all).
True. especially with support for things like Spotify and Soundcloud (although
sadly not Google Play Music), a desktop music player is a useful thing to have.
>> It still looks too much like Amarok 1.4 to fit in well with Plasma.
> This is a strange statement.
>
> What is the reasoning behind 'Amarok 1.4 does not fit Plasma'? Yes, it
> was a player from pre-plasma days, but that does not really mean it is
> bad for Plasma.
>
> It uses breeze icons, has no problems with the breeze theme.
>
> I agree Clementine is a bit uglier than Cantata (and it has some
> custom-drawn UI elements), but it also has some advantages over it.
>
> And I would not dismiss the fact that Amarok 1.x was *the* player for
> Linux (not only KDE users).
>
> This is a side-by-side somparison of their UIs:
> Breeze: https://i.snag.gy/pWtbPk.jpg
> QtCurve: https://i.snag.gy/5CXz3K.jpg
Oh, I see: The biggest weird-looking factor for me is actually the custom background
in the default sidebar. Once you change it to "plain sidebar", it looks way less 
weird.
We might indeed recommend Clementine by default for distributions which don't
mind shipping Qt4-based applications (until the Qt5 port is finished), along 
with the
recommendation to select the plain sidebar and disable the systray icon by default
(because it does not use a Breeze icon, and does not really add much which the
MPRIS Plasmoid doesn't do).

I also just tried out the Spotify integration and that works pretty well, too (a 
bit better
than that of Cantata + Mopidy, actually).
>
> It would be cool if we had some tool for these kinds of discussions
> where we could all list pros and cons of various programs to be able
> to get the whole picture before deciding.
>
> Anyone knows of an online sevice for this?
I don't, but we could always use a simple Google Drive spreadsheet if we want to.