Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Michael Pyne
On Thu, July 30, 2015 16:03:53 John Layt wrote: > > Not soo sure about that, JuK seems to still use KDE3Support Libraries > > ... porting them to Plasma 5/KF5 could be hard. > > Urgh, that's a bit of a surprise, I thought mpyne had cleaned it all > up. At least talk to Michael, he'll be a able to

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Michael Pyne
On Thu, July 30, 2015 15:06:46 Stefan Derkits wrote: > Hi, > > On 2015-07-30 14:08, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Why a new one? Aren´t none of the existing ones in a state that they can´t > > be evolved into what you envision? > > > > There is already Amarok, JuK, Bangarang, Clementine, Plasma M

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Mario Fux
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

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello, On 2015-07-30 12:42, Stefan Derkits wrote: > What do we need: > -) More People to discuss & flesh out the vision [1] > -) A motivated team of designers, software architects, coders & testers, > dedicated to creating a modern music player for our users thank you all for your feedback, sugge

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2015-07-30 14:13, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > I'm using a Amarok and I'm more the music enthusiast type, but I don't > know why you should oppose those to the basic user: whoever the user is, > an application should always be simple and ergonomic :) of course. But if it has many many many fe

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Martin Sandsmark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 05:18:55PM +0200, Stefan Derkits wrote: > On 2015-07-30 17:03, John Layt wrote: > > Urgh, that's a bit of a surprise, I thought mpyne had cleaned it all > > up. At least talk to Michael, he'll be a able to give a lot of good > > advice. > Seems like there is a nokde3 branch,

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2015-07-30 17:03, John Layt wrote: > It always struck me as weird that we had 4 separate apps for doing > essentially the same thing: displaying a list of track metadata for > songs belonging to the same album, and then doing something with those > tracks, either editing or playing or rippi

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread John Layt
On 30 July 2015 at 14:21, Stefan Derkits wrote: > The use cases still have to be fleshed out ... maybe streaming services > are more important than ripping CDs? Really hard to say. > Please join the discussion in the boards and add your ideas there :) It always struck me as weird that we had 4 s

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Алексей Андреев
Hello! I've probably missed some previous conversations, but how about take a look at mopidy and deskop client for this music server? [1] [1] https://www.mopidy.com/ чт, 30 июля 2015 г. в 14:30, Teo Mrnjavac : > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:42:14 Stefan Derkits wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > in d

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, thanks John for your mail. The use cases still have to be fleshed out ... maybe streaming services are more important than ripping CDs? Really hard to say. Please join the discussion in the boards and add your ideas there :) On 2015-07-30 14:59, John Layt wrote: > Nice designs, wrap those ar

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Thursday 30 July 2015, Stefan Derkits wrote: > Hello Teo, > > 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 pa

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2015-07-30 14:08, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Why a new one? Aren´t none of the existing ones in a state that they can´t be > evolved into what you envision? > There is already Amarok, JuK, Bangarang, Clementine, Plasma Media Center and > you name it. As a user I am confused. Which do I

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread John Layt
On 30 July 2015 at 11:42, Stefan Derkits wrote: > At the moment KDE has no up-to-date music player. JuK is very simple to > use, but lacking a modern design. Amarok is and will stay the > swiss-knife of KDE music players, but also lacking a modern design and > may be too complicated for new users

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello Teo, 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 playe

Re: Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Olivier Churlaud
Olivier CHURLAUD Engineer Student at Ecole Centrale de Lyon in Dual Degree at TU Berlin, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik @: oliv...@churlaud.com tel: +49 (0)1575-2931348 in: http://linkedin.com/in/olivierchurlaud web: http://olivier.churlaud.com Le 30/07/2015 13:30, Teo Mrnjavac a écrit : On Thursday, Ju

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 13:30:00 schrieb Teo Mrnjavac: > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:42:14 Stefan Derkits wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > in discussions during Akademy 2015 we found out that while we have with > > Plasma 5 a Desktop that has a modern & consistent look, the state of > > some a

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 12:42:14 schrieb Stefan Derkits: > Dear all, Hello Stefan, > in discussions during Akademy 2015 we found out that while we have with > Plasma 5 a Desktop that has a modern & consistent look, the state of > some applications isn't that good. And we want to change that

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Teo Mrnjavac
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:42:14 Stefan Derkits wrote: > Dear all, > > in discussions during Akademy 2015 we found out that while we have with > Plasma 5 a Desktop that has a modern & consistent look, the state of > some applications isn't that good. And we want to change that. > > At the mome

Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-30 Thread Stefan Derkits
Dear all, in discussions during Akademy 2015 we found out that while we have with Plasma 5 a Desktop that has a modern & consistent look, the state of some applications isn't that good. And we want to change that. At the moment KDE has no up-to-date music player. JuK is very simple to use, but la

Accessing KIO from kdelibs4 from two different threads

2015-07-30 Thread saheb preet singh
Hi, I am Saheb Preet Singh, a KDE GSOC student. I am working on the okular project. I was working on the linearization support which allows to open the files in the reader prior to its complete download. I am having some queries related to KIO. Now, I am able to get the size of the file and rang