On 11 September 2013 19:41, Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Agree here: 2/2 for release team


> 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
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