* Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsm...@kde.org> [2015-08-02 17:31:51 +0200]:
> Hi! > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 08:47:48AM +0200, Ing. Konrad Renner wrote: > > the player (no matter if it is Amarok, JuK or a new one) must be integrated > > well in Plasma (eg usage of baloo for ratings, tags). If I use Plasma, it > > does not matter for me if it runs standalone on eg Windows. > > Thinking a bit about this, and considering that it seems like there so far > hasn't been anyone piping up willing to be a maintainer for a new player like > this, I think it makes more sense to look at an existing player, and see if > we can improve that instead, instead of trying to start something new (and > with "new" I also mean trying to re-boot e. g. amarok or juk). > > For example VLC has an extremely modular architecture, everything in VLC is > basically a plugin/module, including the user interfaces (in case everyone > doesn't know, it actually has several different user interfaces already). An > idea I've been toying with is to try to write a QML based UI module for VLC, > and then I think it makes a lot of sense to base it on the sexy mockups from > the VDG. I'm thinking that other kinds of integration functionality > (activity-awareness, for example) should be possible to put in a module for > VLC as well. > Reusing VLC is a very good idea. I find myself using it in almost all use-cases, let it be playing a local video file or streaming some hard-to-decode video from my powerful laptop to the RasberryPI. -- Valentin Rusu IRC: valir _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
