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Just put up the announcement to amarok.kde.org regarding Summer of Code. Its really great to do it for another year. Last summer I did the Amarok DAAP integration, this summer I'll be overhauling the playlist in Amarok. Refactoring the playlist is a project thats long overdue (its been talked about for at least 2 years!) and redesigning the playlist layout is just simply necessary for our vision for Amarok 2.0.



I was actually accepted for another project as well, a Phonon VideoLAN plugin. After learning more about VideoLAN, I was somewhat concerned that while it probably is a at-most three month job to do it, they may not be three consecutive months as it might require some tweaking of VideoLAN to preform all the functions it needs to. Phonon is an impresively complete API, which makes it a bit scary for backend developers.



I still think a 'phonon-videolan' would be a great idea. VideoLAN is crossplatform, has an active development team and most importantly phonon-videolan would "live" in VideoLAN's repositories. At least in the long-run, it really makes sense to release phonon backends in sync with their respective multimedia library (as opposed to being in kdemultimedia, where they are now). And being part of their repo means the people who know VideoLAN the most would maintain it.



Luckily Jean-Baptiste Kempf is planning on doing it perhaps in the KDE 4.1 timeframe. He has to finish the Qt replacement first (which is looking good BTW). So best of luck to him - I promised to at the least "compile along" and test phonon-videolan when he starts developing it.

Having realized that my context sensitive analysis for my compiler (for my compiler class) is in-fact implemented completely backwards, I'm taking a break by blogging.



Here's my current desktop:





Note that I'm pretty excited about July 21st. And that the KDevelop3 target for cmake is really pretty handy and I wish I could make it the default.