Given that gnome-music is still a preview in 3.10, and needs to grow these features, I am ok with it, as long as the translators are comfortable with the string additions.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Arnel A. Borja <kyous...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We know this is late, but we would like to merge more features to Music for > this > cycle, 3.10. Music is a preview release this cycle, and doesn't have much > features, so we would like to add more to make it more usable. Because of > that, > we would like to request for UI and String Freeze Break for the following > new > features: > > * Notifications > * Search > * Playlists > > Also, a string freeze break is needed by this bug, which changes the > accelerator > for the application menu item "Now Playing" (clash with "New Playlist", they > both use N as accelerator; "Now Playing" will now use P as accelerator): > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707590 > > > Notifications > ============= > > This is the most tested of the three and was already approved for String > Freeze > Break. It is for showing the notifications at the message tray, also adds an > icon there to control Music, and adds controls to the lock screen too so you > could access Music without unlocking. We was not able to merge this before > the > freeze because of a libnotify bug blocking it. > > I added this here too because no one rejected nor accepted this feature for > UI > Freeze Break in the previous request. > > > Search > ====== > > This one is not yet implemented according to the mockups, it is just > filtering > for now in this cycle, but very convenient when searching for some songs, > albums > or artists on large music collections. This has been sitting for a long time > now > in a git branch, but wasn't completed until just recently because we were > busy > fixing bugs. > > As this is just filtering, it is not a huge change - we just added a search > bar > and wrapped the models with GtkTreeModelFilter. > > As far as I could remember, this won't add nor change any strings, so it > only > needs a UI Freeze Break. > > > Playlists > ========= > > This helps managing songs easier, so we would like to have this on this > cycle > too. It is now fully working except on removing songs on a playlist and > needs > some style fixes (borders, menu alignment, checkbox positioning, etc.) to > fully > follow the mockups. > > We have to move to totem-pl-parser from using grilo to parse playlists, > that's > why it wasn't completed before the freeze. Needs UI and String Freeze Break. > > Strings added: > - "Playlists" (name of the view) > - "%d Song", "%d Songs" (shows the number of songs when a playlist is > selected) > - "New Playlist", "Select Playlist", "Select" (in Add To Playlist dialog) > - "_Play", "_Delete" (playlist menu) > - "Remove from Playlist" (action button in Playlists view, selection mode, > not > yet added though) > - We might add an additional message when no playlist is selected yet > > The branch for this feature has lots of commits, but they are actually > smaller > than they look, they are separated this way to make it easier to rebase. > > > All three features and the bug report are approved and tested by the > maintainers. > > We are providing packages for Fedora 19, openSUSE 12.3 and Arch Linux to let > more people test these features (Music is backwards-compatible to 3.8 for > this > cycle, except that it needs the latest libnotify release), and the packages > are > in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:arnelborja:gnome-music:git > > As for now, the Music team are the people who tested it, and probably users > of > our OBS repository. I use these features everyday since Music is my default > music player (in Fedora 19 and openSUSE 12.3, using the packages from the > OBS > repository), and I haven't encountered any crashes. > > Screenshots for these features are in > http://kyoushuu.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/gnome-music-notifications-search-and-playlists/ > and the git branch is in > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-music/log/?h=freeze-break > > > Regards, > > Arnel A. Borja > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > gnome-doc-l...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
