From kde-devel Tue Feb 21 08:47:04 2023 From: Harald Sitter Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:47:04 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Bringing Cantata under the KDE umbrella? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=167696919225040 you are making my case for me On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 9:39 AM Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 21.02.23 um 07:04 schrieb Harald Sitter: > >> Part of the incubation process is to gather what's the team working on it. > >> https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/DescriptionTemplate > > > > +1. That said, what we could do is incubate into playground and see if > > we can assemble the required "Healthy team (healthy proportion of > > volunteers, inclusive towards new contributors, ideally more than one > > developer)" if not the incubation would simply fail. > > > >> It feels wrong to incubate a project that is already out of > >> development. Especially when we already have a number of music > >> players... > > > > I feel like there is a bit of nuance here. AFAIK neither libvlc nor > > gstreamer have support for mpd so this does occupy a niche of its own. > > Now, whether that justifies having yet another UI instead of investing > > into backend abstraction of one of our existing UIs is another > > question entirely. A question I would expect to get an answer TBH. Why > > incubate cantata when we could make elisa or juk grow mpd support? > > There is a substantial amount of code in the UI > > it's not only the mpd support > > features like cached lyrics, lastfm, wikipedia, serverside playlists.... > software written to export lyrics so that they are present when you > switch to info-mode > > [harry@srv-rhsoft:~/.cache/cantata]$ disk-usage.sh > /home/harry/.cache/cantata > 8136 Files 17836 KB 17 MB : albums/ > 7142 Files 21459 KB 20 MB : artists/ > 9800 Files 1267415 KB 1237 MB : covers/ > 4798 Files 11289 KB 11 MB : covers-scaled/ > 100738 Files 108256 KB 105 MB : lyrics/ > 0 Files 0 KB 0 MB : scrobbling/ > 1 Files 7 KB 0 MB : wikipedia/