videos
Video player and library app designed for elementary OS (by elementary)
music
Music player and library designed for elementary OS (by elementary)
| videos | music | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | |
| 59 | 142 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 8.3 | 5.7 | |
| 11 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Vala | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
videos
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Are any special actions needed to be able to use the Videos app?
There's a pretty good description of the issue on github: https://github.com/elementary/videos/issues/320
music
Posts with mentions or reviews of music.
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theres this code (not mine its g4music's) that doesn't seem to work. Its trying to send Artist and Music title to mpris thru dbus so apps like playerctl can use it, except those values never show up except in dbus monitor with "destination = null" How can i fix this?
I’m AFK currently, but here’s the equivalent code in elementary Music that is working here for comparison https://github.com/elementary/music/blob/main/src/DBus/MprisPlayer.vala
- Actual Decent Music Player
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[GTK4] How to import a custom icon from an SVG file and use in as icon_name
I don’t have a minimal example with only the icon stuff in it, but there’s a bunch of apps that used gresourced icons on the elementary GitHub. here is one
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Fedora 36 fresh install. Native res, no scale. Blurry?
libhandy does not exist for GTK4. So, newer elementary apps will use GTK4 + Granite. An example is the new GTK4-based Music application. Cassidy, one of the lead devs of elementary, has said that libadwaita can be used in GTK4 elementary apps too but there's no real example of this afaik.
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elementary OS 7 ideas
I started working on a rewrite for Music. Hopefully with some lessons learned and a better architecture: https://github.com/elementary/music/tree/main
What are some alternatives?
When comparing videos and music you can also consider the following projects:
code - Code editor designed for elementary OS
gala - Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon
photos - Photo viewer and organizer designed for elementary OS
appcenter - Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS
granite - Library that extends GTK with common widgets and utilities