On Friday 19 March 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On March 18, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > Please use reviewboard. I still didn't have a look at the patch but i > > feel reviewboard is much better in order to point out eventual issues. > > The issue with video inside mediacenter is due to Phonon and the > > VideoWidget embedded inside a QGraphicsWidget, so it shouldn't be you > > :-). > > this is perhaps going to sound a bit odd and perhaps even contradictory to > past direction elsewhere (e.g. to how we do things with plasma-desktop) but > it probably makes a lot more sense for the media player to show video in a > separate window that is positioned without window borders. > > that will allow video to be played using xvideo or whatever which is going > to be a hell of a lot faster in these cases than pushing it through the > QGrahicsScene. > > if one wants to have overlays on top of the video, then i'd suggest putting > the video window _behind_ the Plasma::View window and paint the background > of the Plasma::View transparent. this means requiring compositing, but > that's ok in this case afaic. > > (this, btw, is exactly what some of the other linux based media centers do) > > anyone else have thoughts?
yes, this is how i wanted it to proceed. and is already semi began, since is possible to have a video as a separate window, what is still needed is the making the View transparent and on top of it. it would become a kinda dashboard like thinghie -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
