Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 15.16:56 schrieb Allan Sandfeld Jensen: Morning
> > On 2015-07-30 13:30, Teo Mrnjavac wrote: > > > Have you thought about picking up and taking over Amarok? A quick look > > > at the commit log for the past few months suggests that it's > > > essentially unmaintained, so if it keeps this pace it's unlikely to > > > stay the swiss-knife of music players as you suggest. > > > > > > This stuff is hard and time consuming so I think it makes sense to > > > reuse code. > > > > > > While Amarok does have a sizeable feature set, a good portion of those > > > features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated. Perhaps by > > > taking over as maintainer, yanking out all the cruft and taking UX > > > hints from the VDG you could get a modern and pretty music player up > > > and running more quickly and easily than jumping into the umpteenth > > > "magic rewrite that will fix all things forever". You could cut down > > > on the feature set significantly, and present the features that you > > > don't remove in a much better way. > > > > thanks for your answer. > > > > I was definitly thinking about starting (actually I don't feel confident > > enough to create the architecture) from an existing codebase, but > > probably not from the Amarok codebase (except of reusing some parts). I > > also talked with strohel at Akademy who has a better knowledge of the > > codebase and his opinion was that UI & backendcode are too much > > intertwined to allow replacing the UI easily. > > > > What I don't want to do is to take over Amarok. While it is true that > > Amarok is pretty much unmaintained, I don't think a player that has > > maybe only a third of the features should be called Amarok. > > As long as it does the core functionality that users of Amarok uses > (indexing and playing audio), and the Amarok team are on board, it > shouldn't be a problem. It IS a large codebase however. Just remember > while a simple audio player is simple to write, the hard part is the audio > indexing and cataloging, Simple and maybe naive question: why not using Baloo for this. IIRC there was someting about a music or multimedia player using Baloo already. Jungle or so was it's preliminary name? > and dealing with third party plugin for the > popular internet audio products de jure. griits Mario >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
