The Grand Plan

Monday, July 2. 2007

Today we had a meeting at aKademy about what Amarok related work we wanted to do / get started on while here.
This resulted in the following quite ambitious plan:

Ian

- Continue work on the playlist.
- I'm using QGraphicsScene to paint the delegates for the playlist (eg the playlist items). Its pretty easy to use.
- Also there's a few problems with drag and drop currently that don't make sense but....
- there's a Model/View tutorial tomorrow! We hypothesized hijacking it into a "fix Amarok" live session.

Nikolaj

- (Re)introduction of the scriptable service (was never more than a prototpye)
- Demo scripts for the above (reuse the ones from old implementation)
- Reuse code from above to add simple mp3tunes oboe locker service
- General Service framework API stabilization work.
- We had a digression talking about using KListView in the PlaylistBrowser

Bart

- Podcast support based on QXmlStreamReader
- PlaylistBrowser redesign
- using podcasts with smart playlists. a special kind of smart playlist? Not quite sure yet...
- testing out Amarok in pubs, getting laymen responses
- define the target user

Leinir

- Plans to replace the now discarded player window with a plasmoid.

Max K

- Replace collection scanner with scanner interface for Strigi and other Free Desktop projects using XESAM
- fixing the many //TODO's in code

Martin

- Work on OS X - playing music would be a nice feature (phonon engine, perhaps a phonon engine plugin, ...).
- better KIO intergration
- port metadata backend to Strigi
- minimize power consumption on laptops
- fewer crashes

Posted by Nikolaj Hald Nielsen in freespirit at 16:37 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Too bad that I'm not in Glasgow...

- Last I heard: "just wanted to say that I have a running backend for quicktime7". If you're interesting in backend work, please subscribe to phonon-backends@kde.org
- power consumption: I looked at xine apps using powertop and the results were shocking. We really need something to happen there or any app using the Phonon-Xine backend will drain your battery badly.

#1 Matthias Kretz (Homepage) on 2007-07-02 17:26 (Reply)

12:56 < Flameeyes> I'd really like to work on improving xine for power consumption; unfortunately unless 2.6.22 is released I can do very
very little.
12:56 < Flameeyes> Besides, until I can get the audio conversion branch merged, I'm not starting any bigger rewrite, and that is needed;
especially to replace the old buffer handling with something that won't fragment everything because "too big to fit a
buffer"..

#2 Mark Kretschmann on 2007-07-03 07:52 (Reply)

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