On Friday, July 31, 2015 07:32:05 PM Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > On 31 July 2015 at 06:53, Michael Pyne <mp...@kde.org> wrote: > > It's basically still a KDE 3 app that got only partially ported to KDE > > 4... > > > > IMHO some kind of rewrite using taglib and Phonon and a very simple GUI > > would be the best way to go for KDE 5. Martin Sandsmark was working on a > > better port but it's a surprisingly annoying task due to bitrot. > > Would there be objections if JuK was ported straight to KF5, losing > functionality if necessary (as in, screw the features, we want a clean > KF5-based implementation first), upon which we can re-add the features > that are most demanded later?
Personally, I have no problem with a stripped down player that we can then build up more cleanly (nothing feels better than deleting code!). But this would be a good chance to see what features should be slated to be added so people know what to expect as well what things were roadblocks in other media players in KDE. > People did complain that during the transition from KDE3 to Plasma 4, > a lot of functionality was lost, but eventually it all came back, and > today we have a much cleaner codebase while Plasma itself a lot more > moddable, for lack of a better term. Push-back is inevitable, tbh but it doesn't linger as long as legacy code, no? > Another thing is, do we really want to port to Phonon 5, or can we > port to QtMultimedia? I'm not sure of the pros/cons of either, so I'm > just asking. Er, so would using QtMultimedia allow for less dependencies to be pulled in when used outside of KDE? I figure that this is something people might like (but not necessarily the target for something to be PART of the KDE suite). > > -- Boudhayan Gupta > _______________________________________________ > Amarok-devel mailing list > amarok-de...@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel S -- Jacky Alciné - https://jacky.wtf Work: https://jacky.wtf/work --- They can READ + SEE everything in this email. In your texts. The NSA's been spying on US citizens for too long. Read more: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
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