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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: State of the Noatun
From:       Neil Stevens <multivac () fcmail ! com>
Date:       2000-12-01 11:14:37
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On Thursday 30 November 2000 07:55 pm, Charles Samuels wrote:
> KDE 2.1 is approaching, and with it Noatun may (I say "may" because I
> havn't heard anything official)
>
> I'm blatantly stealing some of Neil and Antonio's comments (less
> talking, more coding :)
>
> Left to be done for a KDE2.1 release
>
> 1) support kaiman skins in noatun
> 2) Session Management in the UI plugins
> 3) Starting artsd when unavailable on startup, and restarting artsd if
> it should disappear while Noatun is running (maybe even during
> playback). Or, at least an informative error message, instead of a
> crash, when problems occur.

The freeze is on Monday, right?  I'd say that if items 1 and 3 can be done 
this weekend, Noatun would be ready for kdemultimedia.

This weekend I can hack in some Session Management for 2.1, with the 
caveat that it will probably need to be re-thought for 2.2.  All that is 
really needed, in my view, is Noatun to manage some cooperation with the 
session manager, and re-start when saved in a session.  The playlist's 
save state should make things good enough for 2.1.

> KDE2.2 features:
> 1) configuration of the effects
> 2) konqueror kpart UI (the next thing people will expect on a
> double-click)
> 3) User selection of Arts::PlayObject when more than one
> supports a given file (for when an SMPEG PlayObject is written, for
> example)

I buy that these can wait for 2.2, as our benchmark for Noatun's readiness 
should be the state of Kaiman in 2.0, and unless I'm mistaken, Kaiman 
doesn't do any of these things either.

Honestly, what's going to be more important to people is improved 
performance in the artsd and mpeglib side of things.  Well, that and 
Winamp skins, if I judge the audience correctly.

> About the configuration of effects: ugh :)  I'll procrastinate it as
> much as possible.

Well, while mime-types seem broken right now, effects no longer crash for 
me!  Loading 3 copies Extra Stereo is a strange experience.  I just have 
to add a Close and Help button to the bottom of the Effects View, and 
temporarily hide the ? buttons, and I'd say that effects are ready for a 
release.

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