@Muemmel@kde Binary factory has been deprecated and shut down a week ago. Win binaries are to be provided by the gitlab CD. However, we're still struggling with getting a fully functional qt6 build.
Should be fine within a short amount of time. Just hang on while the qt6/kf6 dust settles. We'll probably even publish Kasts to the windows store once we have proper builds.
@LexPendragon Next best thing is to start #Kasts from the command line and see which warnings it throws. I'm quite sure qml will be complaining about missing components.
@LexPendragon Mmm, this looks like a version mismatch of dependencies for this package. It's probably best to contact the packagers to get this resolved.
I would love to see open podcast projects such as @AntennaPod and @kasts integrate with a FOSS, decentralized protocol like ActivityPub for efficient podcast syncing between platforms. Does such a thing exist now?
@beunice@AntennaPod We're already working on this. Both #AntennaPod and #Kasts are involved in openpodcastapi.org together with other projects like #FunkWhale It's still in the process of specification at the moment.
@toran Yes, there is: open the respective podcast on the subscription page, and then there should be a search button at the top right (i.e. page header).
Ideally that button should move down to the toolbar below the image in the future. Currently it is a bit of a technical problem because of the toolbar that has to appear/disappear.
@toran There are several ways. From simple to complex:
You could save to/from opml from the subscription page overflow menu. This will only handle the subscriptions. It will not save the episode play positions, etc.
Copy your old database to the new install. This will carry over all subscriptions and episode states. See ~/.local/share/KDE/kasts
Use a sync server. First do a forced upload sync on device 1, and then a forced download sync on the 2nd. This also syncs everything.
#Kasts for Linux has had some updates since the last time I looked at it. They are now a viable alternative for me over #gPodder which has been unstable and unusable for the past year. gPodder used to very reliable, but things got so bad that I was seriously looking at #Clementine as an alternative. Very happy to see that Kasts has stepped up their game.
@ioletsgo@m#Kasts has built-in sync support for the gpodder(-nextcloud) protocol. AntennaPod is an android client that supports that protocol as well.
If you don't want to use that, you could in principle sync two instances of Kasts by synchronizing the .local/share/KDE/kasts directory between devices, e.g. with syncthing. That directory contains all of the apps state and downloads.
You could get some conflicts on the DB if you sync while Kasts is running, though.
Fuck it, since I am already at it today here is a especially hot take that applies to mobile Linux environments. I can't fit it all in one post but both Gnome and KDE have a fucking stupid take on theming, if you care just read the message below!
@Fosstonaut@linmob This is also partly a case of distros not always packaging stuff optimally. Just a few days ago someone opened a bug for Kasts not being able to resume play position while streaming on pmos. Turned out they did not compile it with VLC support. So it will fall back to qtmultimedia which causes a huge amount of issues with playback.
The only reason why VLC isn't a hard dependency is because it's not available when compiling for android.
@Fosstonaut@linmob The same thing holds for the icons and themes: developers are reluctant to list them as hard dependencies just in case someone would like to use something different. But there is nothing holding back distros to use the proper icons and themes as compile-time or run-time dependencies.
Maybe it's just a matter of opening a bug report or MR to make them aware?
@musicmatze Unfortunately, gpodder sync API does not cover queue syncing. However, together with several other podcast apps (including #antennapod) we're working on a new API that will include queue syncing: https://openpodcastapi.org/
Having said that, #Kasts will already add any episodes to the queue that are "in progress" while syncing.
@frumble Unfortunately, there is no proper gpodder API for favorites.
However, together with several other podcast app teams (e.g. #antennapod we're in the middle of developing a successor to gpodder API: https://openpodcastapi.org/ which should have such extensions to do this properly.
Well, I tried and failed for the second time and once again have no clue how to get #KDE / #QT apps to use a dark theme in #Phosh . I even tried switching theme and color pallet over qt5ct, qt6ct and kvantum but the mobile versions don't seem to react to those apps whatsoever or I did something really wrong (yet I set the env variable correctly). I wish something like PostmarketOS Tweaks had it, as far as I know it's just a different call because there is no proper standard for dark mode yet.
