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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] KMid: draw note events
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-09-30 21:54:03
Message-ID: 200909302354.04806.aacid () kde ! org
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A Dimecres, 30 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> On Wednesday, September 30, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Dimecres, 30 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> > > On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > A Dimarts, 29 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> > > > > On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > > > other architecture than not Linux? If it does a better patch has
> > > > > > to be researched
> > > > >
> > > > > As an alternative, I can offer my virtual piano widget. It works in
> > > > >  Windows, Mac and Linux and is used in my program VMPK:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
> > > >
> > > > New (and maintained) applications are always a good thing, how does
> > > > VMPK compare to kmid? It's the same feature set? It's KDE-based or
> > > > Qt-based?
> > >
> > > KMid and VMPK features don't overlap too much. KMid is a MIDI and
> > > Karaoke files player. VMPK can't play MIDI files by itself. It is a
> > > virtual keyboard, an emulator of a MIDI musical instrument implemented
> > > in software only, using the mouse and the computer keyboard to generate
> > > MIDI events. VMPK is Qt4-based (not KDE-based) application, GPLv3
> > > licensed.
> >
> > Not being KDE based and GPL3 makes it difficult/impossible to fit in the
> > kde repo.
> 
> No problem. I'm not looking for a new home for my child ;)
> 
> I think that you misunderstood my offering. It was about the piano widget,
>  a component based on Qt4 that can be installed as a QtDesigner plugin, and
>  it is also published alone, without VMPK, for instance here:
> http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Virtual+Piano+Keyboard?content=85050
> 
> As the author of the widget, I can also offer a different license (for the
> widget) if that matters.
> 
> So, to clarify. There is a problem in the widget included in KMid to show a
> piano keyboard, because using QPainter outside of paintEvent() is not
> supported in Mac and Windows. This would be a problem if some day KMid is
> enhanced to support these platforms. So, I'm offering to replace it with my
> multiplatform virtual piano component.

Right i misunderstood, but imho if kmid "works" with your patch there's no 
need to change it at the moment.

> I'm interested in KMid, and very sorry for the orphan.

You can always adopt it ;-)

Albert

> 
> Regards,
> Pedro
> 
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