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Subject: Re: 2009 introspective
From: Michael Pyne <mpyne () purinchu ! net>
Date: 2009-05-08 2:54:32
Message-ID: 200905072254.39777.mpyne () purinchu ! net
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On Monday 04 May 2009 15:55:10 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
For JuK:
> * What have been the defining achievements in the last year?
* Much fewer crashes. Especially nice is that many crashes present since even
KDE 3 have been fixed.
* A lot of the initial porting glitches have been corrected since 4.0 was
released, including file renamer.
* Many cover art improvements. The cover manager is still crap but there's a
lot of fixes besides: Covers aren't converted needlessly to PNG, more cover
types are supported, and .mp3 files with built-in cover art (such as from
amazon.com) work just fine.
* A bit of optimization work although it could still be better.
> * What are the main focus points and or goals for the project in 2009?
* Get rid of qt3support based code (notably K3TreeView).
* Add more metadata (i.e. time added, times played, times skipped, etc.) This
would probably be via using a "real" database instead of QDataStream to manage
the track cache though.
* Get more contributors. Both main coders have very time-intensive day jobs
and therefore feature development and bug fixing have slowed almost to a crawl.
> * What are the major pain points in your project right now?
* The track cache is not very extensible, therefore there's a lot of useful
metadata which simply isn't tracked because it would mean changing the format.
In addition it is probably much slower than using a real DB.
* Using K3TreeView entails a lot of manual pointer tracking. Switching over
to a model/view type of situation would be ideal, even if it isn't based on
QAbstractItemModel.
* Many features still remain to be fully ported. For instance, "burn with
k3b", MusicBrainz, etc.
* Global shortcuts + multimedia keys don't seem to work very well at all, even
this late into KDE 4.
> * Outside of the core libs (kdecore, kdeui, kio, kfile) what are the most
> critical pieces of KDE technologies that your project is relying on?
Phonon
Regards,
- Michael Pyne
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