Re: GSoC 2019: Project Proposal for a New Game

2019-02-05 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 05.02.19 12:06, Pranam Lashkari wrote: > Surely it will take around that much time as it would require to introduce > many different levels. this may be my personal perception, but I'm not sure that content (levels) is part of the GSoC. Of course, one or two demo levels, sure, but "many di

Re: GSoC 2019: Project Proposal for a New Game

2019-02-05 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello Pranam, On 05.02.19 10:56, Pranam Lashkari wrote: > Today is the last day for the organization application. I was still hoping > if there is anyone who could mentor me for this project. this is the Deadline for KDE only. Until that day KDE as organization can apply to participate in GSoC.

Re: Can a GSoC 2018 student attend Akademy 2018?

2018-04-24 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi Dileep, On 2018-04-24 17:06, Dileep Sankhla wrote: > I am a GSoC 2018 student under KDE Community and I want to attend > Akademy 2018 to be held in Vienna, Austria from 11-17 August. I have > checked the webpage and found that the last date for proposal has been > passed away (March 12).  That

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I tell > it > to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in device-independent > pixels, so it actually creates an area 1280x960, which is 4x bigger than the > di

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-21 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello, this proposal makes me happy, not only because I have a 4K Screen, but also because Lukas was a Student in a course at University about Software Engineering in C++/Qt of which I was part of the teaching team. And we need more people in Austria involved into KDE :) On 2017-03-21 00:34, Luka

Evolving Music Players - Thread splitting

2015-08-05 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, wow this is already a long discussion, but with many many usefull points. Atm there are 4 different discussions in one thread. 1) We want a modern, easy-to-use & simple music player. Andrew already posted a list of people that are interested. 2) Some ideas came up what a music player should/

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-08-03 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello Konrad, On 2015-08-03 11:33, Ing. Konrad Renner wrote: > The same is true for a Plasma music application: if it uses its own > system for ratings, a possible new "Plasma multimedia application" > cannot use this informations and so a user has to define them for each > application. And I thin

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-08-01 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2015-08-01 17:01, Ing. Konrad Renner wrote: > but the use case for ratings is: I rate a file in Dolphin and this rating > should also be used in the music player and vice versa. well but if I only store it in Baloo then music players, assuming they follow the freedesktop specification, th

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-08-01 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello, On 2015-08-01 08:47, Ing. Konrad Renner wrote: > the player (no matter if it is Amarok, JuK or a new one) must be integrated > well in Plasma (eg usage of baloo for ratings, tags). If I use Plasma, it > does not matter for me if it runs standalone on eg Windows. I see a use case for Balo

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-31 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2015-07-31 23:43, kainz.a wrote: > what's the problem with using Amarok? In kde4 times they are the first > application that use plasma. now I think an qt 5 port is still open so this > would be the perfect time to get into an redesign isn't it? If the amarok > developers don't like an rede

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-31 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2015-07-31 20:29, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > Would it be a good idea to also take plasma mobile into account on deciding > the code base? from my PoV definitly. If we could have a Backend that using different UIs and maybe some different code can run on Desktop, Mobile & Big Screen (Plasma M

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

2015-07-31 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello, taking some lists off this discussion. Let us try to use the kde-multimedia list, there is no mail traffic there anyways ;) On 2015-07-31 16:35, kainz.a wrote: > why we can't use PMC as standard audio and video player? I think there was > also an discussion about an standard video player

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 a

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 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 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 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 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

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

Re: Projects for Students wanted!

2014-09-11 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi Christoph, hi everyone else, first of all: Thanks to the people that already contacted me, feel free to contact me with more project ideas. But also read the "disclaimer" below :) On 2014-09-09 17:32, Christoph Feck wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2014 10:57:44 Stefan

Projects for Students wanted!

2014-09-09 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hey all, I'm a Teaching assistant for the course Advanced Software Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. It is a course for master students in Software Engineering. In this course the students have to run a project in a group of 4 - 6 people. As they can choose freely what project t