Olivier CHURLAUD
Engineer Student at Ecole Centrale de Lyon
in Dual Degree at TU Berlin, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik
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Le 30/07/2015 13:30, Teo Mrnjavac a écrit :
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 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.
So let's make a new music player, a successor especially to JuK & Bangarang.
A music player not for power users or music enthusiasts that want/need 100s
of features in a player but a simple player designed & made for users of
the Plasma 5 Desktop.
What do we already have:
-) A design vision by the VDG including UI mockups & user stories [0]
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
This music player should not replace Amarok or other great Qt-based
music players like Tomahawk or Clementine, as their feature set is much
bigger than this new music player should ever have.
So if you are interested, contact me either in person on Akademy, on IRC
(HorusHorrendus @ freenode) or via mail (stefan [at] derkits.at)
Excellent idea, a no-nonsense "thing that opens audio files" is much needed.
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 players as you suggest.
This stuff is hard and time consuming so I think it makes sense to reuse code.
While Amarok does have a sizeable feature set, a good portion of those
features are either poorly designed, broken or outdated. Perhaps by taking
over as maintainer, yanking out all the cruft and taking UX hints from the VDG
you could get a modern and pretty music player up and running more quickly and
easily than jumping into the umpteenth "magic rewrite that will fix all things
forever". You could cut down on the feature set significantly, and present the
features that you don't remove in a much better way.
Cheers,
Hi,
I looked at what the ui vision which is quite nice.
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 :)
I would be really interested to contribute and help to maintain such a
project. And following the 1st decisions and development is the best way
for me to really feel concerned.
I'm the lead developer of Macaw-Movies (a movie collection organizer)
and I must say that being (almost) alone on the project doesn't help me
to be productive, I'm lacking other opinions about ergonomic, code
structure... So I'll be glad to learn new things here, to use there :)
Please contact me if you're still interested by people joining the project.
If you want to see a little what I did with Macaw:
* https://community.kde.org/Macaw-Movies
* https://github.com/macaw-movies/macaw-movies
Cheers,
Olivier
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