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| === Elisa ===
| | See https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ |
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| Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be
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| simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to
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| account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.
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| We focus on a very good integration with the Plasma desktop of the KDE
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| community without compromising the support for other platforms (other Linux
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| desktop environments, Windows and Android).
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| We are creating a reliable product that is a joy to use and respects our users
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| privacy. As such, we will prefer to support online services where users are in
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| control of their data.
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| == Goals ==
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| Elisa is still in heavy development and aims to implement the following goals:
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| * being easy to setup (ideally, one would not setup anything before being able to use it) ;
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| * being fully usable offline (or in privacy mode) ;
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| * being open to leverage online services but not a development priority (the experience should not be degraded when you are offline) ;
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| * being focused on satisfying users' goals ;
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| * being focused on music player (managing your music collection is not a development priority). This means that it is not a direct fulfilment for people needing that. This seems that a dedicated application would be more appropriate ;
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| * being as much as possible bug free (meaning stability has higher priority than feature development) ;
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| * targets Linux Plasma Workspace, other Linux desktop environments, Android and Windows ;
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| * being able to leverage UPnP DLNA.
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| == Release Plans ==
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| [[Elisa/ElisaReleaseSchedule|Release Schedules of Elisa]]
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| == Change Log of Stable Versions ==
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| [[Elisa/ChangeLog.0.2.0|Change Log of version 0.2.0]]
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| == Current Interface ==
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| The following snapshots show the current interface. They are only indicative and everything is open for improvements.
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| [[File:Elisa_albums_view.png|400px|thumb|left|Albums View]]
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| [[File:Elisa_artists_view.png|400px|thumb|right|Artists View]]
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| [[File:File:Elisa_artists_view.png|400px|thumb|left|Albums from an Artist View]]
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| [[https://community.kde.org/File:Elisa_tracks_view.png|400px|thumb|right|Tracks View]]
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| [[File:Elisa_now_playing_view.png|400px|thumb|left|"Now Playing" view]]
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| [[File:Elisa_search_view.png|400px|thumb|right|Search view]]
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| [[File:Elisa_album_view.png|400px|thumb|left|One Album View]]
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| Elisa is loosely following design mockups made by the Visual Design Group of KDE. The mockups can be found [https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Music_Player here].
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| == Try It ==
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| Some packages already exist. [https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak Flatpaks] for Elisa are available. There is an AUR and it is packaged for KDE neon Developer Unstable. The releases are usually packaged for [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/eclipseo/elisa/ Fedora]
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| You can obtain Windows builds from https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/elisa-master-win32/
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| == Get Involved ==
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| The Elisa team is open to any contributions and feedback.
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| Bugs can be reported to [https://bugs.kde.org/ bugs.kde.org].
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| Development can be followed on [https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/elisa/ Elisa tasks board].
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| Code contributions have to be submitted via [https://invent.kde.org/kde/elisa Gitlab]. You can follow generic user instruction for Gitlab and a merge request workflow.
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| We are in a transition from Phabricator to Gitlab. During the transitions, merge requests have to be sent via Gitlab when tasks are still handled by Phabricator.
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| There is also a [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/elisa Elisa mailing list] available for coordination.
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| == Compilation from source ==
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| === on Linux ===
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| The way Elisa application is built is completely standard for an application based on Qt5, KDE Frameworks 5 and cmake.
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| ; [[Get Involved/development#Applications]]
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| Elisa has a few dependencies mainly from Qt5 and KF5 with the minimum required versions being Qt 5.11 and KDE Frameworks 5.60. Currently the list is:
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| -- REQUIRED:
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| * Qt5Network
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| * Qt5Qml
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| * Qt5Quick
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| * Qt5Test
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| * Qt5Sql
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| * Qt5Multimedia
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| * Qt5Svg
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| * Qt5Gui
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| * Qt5Widgets
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| * Qt5QuickTest
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| * Qt5Concurrent
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| * Qt5 (required version >= 5.11.0)
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| * Qt5QuickControls2 (required version >= 5.11.0), Qt5 Quick Controls version 2 is needed at runtime to provide the interface.
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| * KF5Kirigami2 (required version >= 5.60.0), KF5 Kirigami 2 is needed to provide the mobile UI components.
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| * Gettext
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| * KF5I18n (required version >= 5.60.0), KF5 text internationalization library.
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| * KF5CoreAddons (required version >= 5.60.0), Qt addon library with a collection of non-GUI utilities.
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| * KF5Config (required version >= 5.60.0), Persistent platform-independent application settings.
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| * ECM (required version >= 1.6.0)
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| * Qt5Core
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| -- RECOMMENDED:
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| * KF5Declarative (required version >= 5.60.0), Integration of QML and KDE work spaces.
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| * KF5Baloo (required version >= 5.60.0), Baloo provides file searching and indexing.
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| * KF5FileMetaData (required version >= 5.60.0), Provides a simple library for extracting metadata.
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| * KF5XmlGui (required version >= 5.60.0), Framework for managing menu and toolbar actions.
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| * KF5ConfigWidgets (required version >= 5.60.0), Widgets for configuration dialogs.
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| * KF5KCMUtils (required version >= 5.60.0), KF5 Utilities for KDE System Settings modules library.
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| * KF5Package (required version >= 5.60.0), KF5 package management library needed to get the configuration dialogs.
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| * KF5KIO (required version >= 5.60.0), File management libraries used for file browsing.
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| * LIBVLC, libvlc allows to play music in Elisa, <https://www.videolan.org/vlc/libvlc.html>
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| -- OPTIONAL:
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| * Qt5DBus (required version >= 5.11.0), Qt5 DBus is needed to provide MPris2 interface to allow remote control by the desktop workspace.
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| * KF5DocTools (required version >= 5.60.0), Create documentation from DocBook library.
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| * KF5Crash (required version >= 5.60.0), Graceful handling of application crashes.
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| * KF5DBusAddons (required version >= 5.60.0), Convenience classes for D-Bus.
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| * PkgConfig
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| -- RUNTIME:
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| * Qt5QuickWidgets (required version >= 5.11.0), Qt5 Quick Widgets is needed at runtime to provide the interface.
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| * Qt.labs.platform, Qt.labs module with some qml components wrapping platform APIs
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| * qml-module-qtqml-models2 (required version >= 5.11.0), qml Qt module
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| * qml-module-org-kde-kcm (required version >= 5.60.0), qml module from KF5 KDeclarative framework
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| * qml-module-qtquick-controls (required version >= 5.11.0), qml Qt module
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| * qml-module-qtquick-dialogs (required version >= 5.11.0), qml Qt module
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| * qml-module-qtquick-layouts (required version >= 5.11.0), qml Qt module
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| * qml-module-qtquick2 (required version >= 5.11.0), qml Qt module
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| For example on Debian and derivatives you may use:
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| sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qtmultimedia5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libkf5i18n-dev libkf5filemetadata-dev baloo-kf5-dev libkf5config-dev libkf5kcmutils-dev libkf5declarative-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5doctools-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5dbusaddons-dev extra-cmake-modules gettext qml-module-qt-labs-platform qml-module-qtqml-models2 qml-module-org-kde-kcm qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick2
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| The next state is to get Elisa sources and build them:
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| git clone https://anongit.kde.org/elisa.git
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| cd elisa
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| mkdir build
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| cd build
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| cmake ..
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| make
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| You can execute it with the following command:
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| ./elisa/build/bin/elisa
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| You may also now install Elisa system-wide, but beware that the following cannot always be undone (read the build instructions for more information). If you wish to do anyway, run
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| sudo make install
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| === on Android ===
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| It is now possible to build a very simple application based on Elisa on Android.
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| cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=19 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<workspace>/androidRoot -DCMAKE_ANDROID_NDK=<workspace>/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<workspace>/androidRoot/share/ECM/toolchain/Android.cmake -DECM_ADDITIONAL_FIND_ROOT_PATH="<workspace>/Qt/5.11.1/android_armv7;<workspace>/androidRoot;<workspace>/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle/platforms/android-19/arch-arm/usr/lib" -DKF5_HOST_TOOLING=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake -DQTANDROID_EXPORTED_TARGET=elisa -DANDROID_APK_DIR=../data
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| === on Windows ===
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| Windows is built using the Craft build system. Please follow instruction
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| ; [[Craft#Setting_up_Craft| Setting up of Craft]]
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| and enter
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| craft elisa
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| in the Windows PowerShell to download and compile all required dependencies and Elisa itself.
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| == Design Open Questions ==
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| The design of Elisa currently leaves open questions about the direction. At least the following points need an identified solution that could be implemented:
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| * Implement User Centered Design to help guide the development (definition of persona, ...) ;
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| * trying to combine an interface to be used with the mouse and with the touchscreen commonly found on laptops ;
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| * how to decide what is done with a single click, double click or single long click.
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| == Description of the Application Architecture ==
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| Currently, music is retrieved from Baloo and put in an SQLite memory database. A local file indexer can be used in addition or when Baloo is not available.
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| The user interface is done in QML with Qt Quick Controls 2.
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| The UPnP support is probably broken right now.
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