I have added a "Usage workflow" part to the wiki page.What do you think?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Christophe Olinger <oling...@binarylooks.com> wrote: > Thanks Aaron, > > That's exactly the way we are currently going. > > Switching modes and having sensible controls and the right connections > for each mode is 90 % done now. As soon as I get this out I'll start > on the home (=startup) applet and also on the providers on the picture > side. Digikam albums are a great idea. I'll keep that in mind. > > Shantanu has everything nicely summed up in his proposal. So as soon > as he gets this out, things will become clearer. > > I'll also have a look at the wiki on techbase. Thank you for helping > us out in that regard. > > BTW, I am currentl doing my hacking on gitorious. (I am fully aware > that this might not be a good idea at the moment with the swtich to > git and everything. Of yourse I'll adapt to whatever you guys chose as > versioning option. I'll also keep on sending patches to reviewboard. > > git clone git://gitorious.org/plasma-media-center/mainline.git > > Hacking on this is turning out to be a great way of learning > everything about plasma and dataengines and qt in general. It's my > first big project and it is a lot of fun. > > Could somebody have a look at the current patch in reviewboard please. > I am sometimes a bit afraid that I am running in the wrong direction, > since this is my first complex project. > > > Cheers everybody > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha > <jhahon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: >>> On March 26, 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >>>> This is not 100 % true. At the moment Shantanu and me try to have it >>>> also scale down to netbook size screens. This will be a bigger user >>>> base in the future than big tv screens IMHO. Also that is my >>> >>> i should have been more specific. by "large screens" i meant things larger >>> than the n900 or the Jax10's we had at tokamak 4. >>> >>> i think a primary use case for PMC will be laptops, with T.V.s being a >>> secodary one. >>> >>> as Zack points out, more important than screen size, however, is the input >>> device. on pocketable devices, that is your finger (or, at worst, a stylus). >>> on laptops, that's a keyboard and mouse. on a T.V. it's a hand-held remote >>> control. >>> >>> i don't think we can sanely target both pocketable devices and laptops/T.V.s >>> due to this. i do think we can target both laptops and T.V.s, however. the >>> reason for this is that while the T.V. is limited by a remote control input, >>> on the laptop use case when one fires up a full screen mediacenter (which is >>> what PMC should be) you want to go into a simplified user experience that is >>> centered around media viewing. >>> >>> if you want something richer, that doesn't take over the whole display and >>> with more point-and-click finesse, that's what apps like kaffeine and amarok >>> are for. >>> >>> this means that PMC only needs to address the same audiences that plasma- >>> desktop or plasma-netbook would, and should be aiming for a UI that is clear >>> enough that even a remote control is good enough. >>> >>> to go down this path a little bit more, even, here are some typical use >>> cases >>> i have in mind for PMC based on observation of today's typical computer >>> user: >>> >>> * Joe is on a train / airplane travelling between two cities. The trip is >>> long >>> enough to watch the latest episode of his favourite T.V. show which he >>> downloaded the night before from his PVR at home. Joe pops open his laptop, >>> clicks on the Desktop Toolbox and selects "Media Center". PMC loads and he >>> selects "Video", which presents a list of videos on his internal hard drive. >>> >>> * Jane is at home and wants to show her dinner guests pictures from the >>> recent >>> weekend trip she went on. Jane plugs her laptop into the living room >>> television, opens the application launcher (Kickoff, Lancelot) and selects >>> "Media Center". PMC starts up and she selects "Photos" which shows various >>> sets of photo albums. After going through the "Weekend Ski Trip" photos, she >>> goes back and selects Videos -> Youtube and loads a Youtube playlist of top >>> 40 >>> music videos to play in the background while they visit. >>> >>> * Jaqueline sits down on the couch with her husband Jack and they turn on >>> the >>> television and their Plasma Media Center set top box. They grab the remote >>> control and check the videos that they had recorded / downloaded but haven't >>> watched yet. They select an episode of House and another of Fawlty Towers >>> and >>> press "Play". >>> >>> now, these are the use cases i have in my mind. they may be different from >>> those working on PMC have. hopefully not, but it's certainly possible. :) we >>> should therefore get to documenting what's being done here. i've gone ahead >>> and started a page here: >>> >>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center >>> >>> feel free to change any and all content and add, add, add more to it. >> >> Good idea, I'll be at it. >> >>> >>> the use cases above do provide some interesting insights, though: it would >>> be >>> sensible to have a Digikam photo provider for PMC so that one can create >>> their >>> photo albums in Digikam and then later view those same albums in PMC. it >>> would >>> be sensible to have some notion of what's been watched and be able to set up >>> simple "playlists" by selecting mutiple items from a list of available >>> media. >>> it doesn't matter if PMC works on the N900 well. >>> >>> thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> Aaron J. 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