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digimezzo / dopamine-windows

Audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
https://digimezzo.github.io/site/
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Create a Linux version #810

Open sbstn87 opened 6 years ago

sbstn87 commented 6 years ago

I'm submitting a...


[ ] Regression 
[ ] Bug report  
[x ] Feature request

Is it possible to make a Linux version of Dopamine?

PhillyMay commented 6 years ago

Woud like to see a Linux Version too. Preferably a distribution agnostic version (AppImage/Flatpack/Snap), so that everyone is able to use it.

I really like Solus OS because it does a lot of important things right (rolling release, beautiful ui, clean and up2date "app center", etc.). The problem with such distributions is, that they are not based on anything else (like Ubuntu = Debian or Manjaro = Arch), so the app selection is not as good as on some other distros. Plattform agnostic packages would help minimizing the fragmentation of Linux, without sacrificing the idea of a having different distros for different use cases (Tablet, Server, Desktop, etc)

sbstn87 commented 6 years ago

+1 for a Flatpak release

digimezzo commented 6 years ago

What are the current GUI frameworks for Linux? Is it still GTK and QT? (I haven't used Linux in years). If there is a UI modern, usable and stable UI framework that supports .NET/Mono, I might work a Linux version. WPF is what makes Dopamine amazing. I'm, however, afraid there isn't such thing on Linux.

sbstn87 commented 6 years ago

Yeah, GTK and Qt still are the dominant GUI frameworks. In my opinion Qt is currently the one that offers better look and feel.

I noticed that WPF is XML based. For Qt there's something called QML that may offer similar possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML

The official KDE music player is based on QML AFAIK: https://vvave.kde.org/

Magentaize commented 6 years ago

Impossible, WPF is a 2D/3D graphic engine based on DirectX and *nix doesn't has a perfect engine except Valve Source.

digimezzo commented 6 years ago

I, more and more, want to do this. I've been a Linux users for years, before I moved back to Windows a few years ago. Today, I've been looking which are the current audio players on Linux. Sadly, things haven't changed at all since so long ago. So, I'll try to find some time to look at this. The Linux version won't be exactly like the Windows version (due to framework differences), but I'll try to keep the philosophy from the Windows version.

Avalonia UI looks promising; http://avaloniaui.net

Riajyuu commented 6 years ago

@digimezzo I afraid you have to rewrite most things. plus, too many desktop environment to be adapted on Linux.

sbstn87 commented 6 years ago

@digimezzo That would be great. Dopamine could be the best looking music player on Linux. Please keep us updated on that.

digimezzo commented 6 years ago

@Rictusempra I realize that. It will be a big challenge. But I'm willing to give it a try.

digimezzo commented 6 years ago

I've looked at the possiblities for UI development in Linux. At some point I considered Electron, to be able to provide a UI experience like on Windows. With web tech it would be possible to use a style similar to the Windows Dopamine. I, however, think Linux users would prefer a more native experience. So my current preference lies in creating a Python/GTK+3 version of Dopamine. The idea is that it would offer a UI layout similar to the Windows Dopamine, but using a more GTK native experience. It would stick to the selected GTK theme. What do you think about this?

Magentaize commented 6 years ago

Rewriting Dopamine into another language will be a magnificent picture :)

PrinceOwen9466 commented 5 years ago

Hey check this out, (http://avaloniaui.net) you can basically create a linux and mac version of Dopamine using XAML and Mono! I have really enjoyed how awesome and incredible Dopamine has been, It would definitely be a dream come true to have such a great music player on linux. I'm a .Net developer myself, I would love to contribute if you need some help!

trymeouteh commented 5 years ago

I would like to suggest Qt framework. I heard it is a great UI for making desktop applications.

If a Linux app is released then I would ditch my other linux music players for this.

AldyTS commented 5 years ago

no linux version yet?

digimezzo commented 5 years ago

@AldyTS I'm working on it. My time has however been very limited lately :( But it is in the works.

AldyTS commented 5 years ago

@digimezzo thanks for responding! I'm glad you didn't abandon the idea dopamine music player on linux, because dopamine is my go to music player when I'm using windows and I've already tried multiple music players on linux and they just can't be compared to dopamine in terms of ease of use and sleekness!

NNois commented 4 years ago

Oh this would be so cool. On linux music players are so old style, we need Spotify like ones, so straightforward