Hi Ryan, i got my development version working. Today I could spend some hours to review the code and I think, that I understand the basic concept. I also read the development roadmap, but sometimes its hard to guess, what exactly is meant by topic XYZ, if one is not that deep in the project already.
But there is one thing I'd like to change first: "The Skin System" I'm not sure if there was a lot of discussion about that topic in the past, but I think because of the way it is done, the GUI doesn't behave as a user might expect. (Full screen and so forth) Skins must not depend on the screen's resolution. I think it should be done as a box layout similar to CSS. Therefore I would not use png Files, but SVG insteat. I already made some custom widgets in Qt, using SVG files and they look great, because Qt is going to re- render the SVG's on resize. (I think there won't be any performance problems rendering the images after a resize of the GUI ?!) I know this is not on the roadmap, not even for 1.9, so maybe nobody thought about it or it doesn't seem to be important, but I think, since the visual experience is always the first impression of a software, it is more important than one might expect. So i suggest to start that rewrite (maybe just as a try, if it doesn't work very well) and show you my results and then we can see if its a feature you like to integrate or not. Feedback welcome ;-) Pascal ----Ursprüngliche Nachricht---- Von: rr...@mit.edu Datum: 18.01.2010 21:48 An: "Pascal Huerst"<pascal.hue...@bluewin.ch> Kopie: <mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Betreff: Re: [Mixxx-devel] I can help! Hey Pascal, Welcome to the mixxx-devel! We're always looking for new contributors. Check out our wiki: http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php In particular the development roadmap: http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/development_roadmap That should give you an idea of the main features we are looking at finishing, and when. The feature discussion page has some links to design documents we've written in the past, and has a mini-wishlist. http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/feature_discussion Also, check out our bug tracker on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx You should definitely get yourself up running the development version of the code instead of, e.g. 1.7.2. You can follow our guides for building on Linux, OSX or Windows that are on the wiki. The developers usually hang out on the IRC channel, #mixxx on freenode.net. It's a nice place to go and bounce ideas off of people, or to ask for help if you have issues building or questions about the code. RJ Pascal Huerst wrote: > Hi folks, > > I found Mixxx on the Web a few Weeks ago. Since I am a user of Traktor, I was > surprised, that there is such a good solution from the community. I downloaded and started discovering and I think its very well done!!! So respect. > > Yesterday I get the source and what surprise: It uses Qt. I was looking for > an Open Source Project to contribute to. And I think this is just perfect for me. I've been developing different things in Qt last two years and I can say that Qt is quite familiar. > > Now my Question: I would have some Ideas what to do, but before I start > hacking anything, I wanted to ask if there are important things, which have to be done first... An which might be a good point to start. > > Thanks so far. > > Greetings from Berlin > Pascal > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the > world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference > attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through > interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
