Re: Music: Freeze Break request

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

How many new strings are we talking about, including the new features?

\Kenneth

Den 11-09-2013 19:41, Matthias Clasen skrev:
> Given that gnome-music is still a preview in 3.10, and needs to grow
> these features, I am ok with it, as long as the translators are
> comfortable with the string additions.
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Arnel A. Borja <kyoushuu yahoo com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We know this is late, but we would like to merge more features to Music for
> > this
> > cycle, 3.10. Music is a preview release this cycle, and doesn't have much
> > features, so we would like to add more to make it more usable. Because of
> > that,
> > we would like to request for UI and String Freeze Break for the following
> > new
> > features:
> >
> > * Notifications
> > * Search
> > * Playlists
> >
> > Also, a string freeze break is needed by this bug, which changes the
> > accelerator
> > for the application menu item "Now Playing" (clash with "New Playlist", they
> > both use N as accelerator; "Now Playing" will now use P as accelerator):
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707590
> >
> >
> > Notifications
> > =============
> >
> > This is the most tested of the three and was already approved for String
> > Freeze
> > Break. It is for showing the notifications at the message tray, also adds an
> > icon there to control Music, and adds controls to the lock screen too so you
> > could access Music without unlocking. We was not able to merge this before
> > the
> > freeze because of a libnotify bug blocking it.
> >
> > I added this here too because no one rejected nor accepted this feature for
> > UI
> > Freeze Break in the previous request.
> >
> >
> > Search
> > ======
> >
> > This one is not yet implemented according to the mockups, it is just
> > filtering
> > for now in this cycle, but very convenient when searching for some songs,
> > albums
> > or artists on large music collections. This has been sitting for a long time
> > now
> > in a git branch, but wasn't completed until just recently because we were
> > busy
> > fixing bugs.
> >
> > As this is just filtering, it is not a huge change - we just added a search
> > bar
> > and wrapped the models with GtkTreeModelFilter.
> >
> > As far as I could remember, this won't add nor change any strings, so it
> > only
> > needs a UI Freeze Break.
> >
> >
> > Playlists
> > =========
> >
> > This helps managing songs easier, so we would like to have this on this
> > cycle
> > too. It is now fully working except on removing songs on a playlist and
> > needs
> > some style fixes (borders, menu alignment, checkbox positioning, etc.) to
> > fully
> > follow the mockups.
> >
> > We have to move to totem-pl-parser from using grilo to parse playlists,
> > that's
> > why it wasn't completed before the freeze. Needs UI and String Freeze Break.
> >
> > Strings added:
> > - "Playlists" (name of the view)
> > - "%d Song", "%d Songs" (shows the number of songs when a playlist is
> > selected)
> > - "New Playlist", "Select Playlist", "Select" (in Add To Playlist dialog)
> > - "_Play", "_Delete" (playlist menu)
> > - "Remove from Playlist" (action button in Playlists view, selection mode,
> > not
> >    yet added though)
> > - We might add an additional message when no playlist is selected yet
> >
> > The branch for this feature has lots of commits, but they are actually
> > smaller
> > than they look, they are separated this way to make it easier to rebase.
> >
> >
> > All three features and the bug report are approved and tested by the
> > maintainers.
> >
> > We are providing packages for Fedora 19, openSUSE 12.3 and Arch Linux to let
> > more people test these features (Music is backwards-compatible to 3.8 for
> > this
> > cycle, except that it needs the latest libnotify release), and the packages
> > are
> > in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:arnelborja:gnome-music:git
> >
> > As for now, the Music team are the people who tested it, and probably users
> > of
> > our OBS repository. I use these features everyday since Music is my default
> > music player (in Fedora 19 and openSUSE 12.3, using the packages from the
> > OBS
> > repository), and I haven't encountered any crashes.
> >
> > Screenshots for these features are in
> > http://kyoushuu.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/gnome-music-notifications-search-and-playlists/
> > and the git branch is in
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-music/log/?h=freeze-break
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Arnel A. Borja
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