On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:19 PM, todd rme <toddrme2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Christophe Olinger > <oling...@binarylooks.com> wrote: >> Dear plasma friends, >> >> I wanted to give you a quick heads up on how far the plasma media center has >> come in the recent weeks. I'll coordinate with the other contributors to >> blog about it soonish. >> >> On Startup: >> You see only 3 buttons at the moment: local music, local pictures and local >> videos. Clicking on any of these buttons switches the mediacenter to a >> certain state. (Later you will have here you tube, flickr, picasa, ownCloud >> :-) >> >> Music Mode: >> Here, you see a browser (grid or list view) only showing music, you have a >> control bar with typical playback control buttons and seek/volume slider and >> a playlist. The playlist also only shows music files. Clicking on a file in >> the browser adds it to the playlist, clicking on a file in the playlist >> starts to play the file. Browser, controlbar and playlist remain visible >> while music is playing. >> >> Video Mode >> Same as above except that the browser and the playlist only show video >> files. Clicking on a file in the browser again adds to the playlist, >> clicking on the playlist starts the video file in fullscreen mode. The >> controlbar and playlist automatically turn to an autohide mode but are >> accessible via the screen edges. >> >> Picture Mode >> Here there is no playlist :-p. >> The browser again only shows pictures and clicking on one will show it >> fullscreen with the controlbar turing to autohide. I still need to implement >> the slideshow mode but that will be easy. >> >> The controlbar >> In addition to the mode specific buttons, this applet always has a button to >> return to the startup screen one button to return to the previous directory >> and one button to toggle the autohide function of the control bar and to >> show/hide the playlist (only music and video state). It also has a tab >> widget that allows changing the browser display, like show albums, show >> artists,...This doesn't work yet. >> >> Background modes >> The cool thing is, you can run these 3 modes in parallel! For example >> listening to music and looking at pictures is completely possible. You can >> also look at a video and have music in the background (if you think you have >> to :-) In every mode you see little icons that tell you which other modes >> are currently active and clicking on them switches to that mode. >> >> Ok, so far for the little update. You see that the mediacenter is usable in >> its current state but it also needs a lot of work still. I hope we will >> increase our development speed exponentially as soon as Shaan comes out of >> exam mode and Alessandro has more time. Currently the project lives in my >> git repo on gitorious (the playlist focus on one mediatype is still on my >> local drive) but I hope I can get it into svn this week and also have a nice >> sexy blog post. By the way, I am almost sure that this will NOT be part of >> any KDE release this year. Sorry. >> >> I want to thank Alessandro, Marco, Shaan, Sebastian and Aaron for their >> precious help and I am looking forward to further contribute with all of >> you. >> >> And here a small screenshot (sorry, I only have one video file on my netbook >> so I can not show you nice picture thumbnails :-) >> http://www.imagebin.ca/view/81paK7U.html >> >> >> Christophe Olinger aka binarylooks >> >> >> Here are some things that still need to be done: >> - More dataengines like youtube, flickr, nepomuk >> - keyboard, remote and wiimote control of everything >> - Beautification of the UI >> - Performance work >> - Minimal image manipulation: rotate,... >> - Zoom images and browser >> - Information bar that allows rating, tagging, shows the current directory, >> music analyzer,... >> - Picture slideshow mode >> - Lots of testing and bugfixing, this is preAlpha state! > > Looks great! > > Is there a list of planned features somewhere? For instance I don't > see mention of a TV tuner dataengine, for instance, which I assume > would be a natural part of a mediacenter. It would be good if there > were a list of planned features we could look at to know what is and > is not expected.
You can find one here http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center Though its not that complete, but its kind of an overview of what we plan to do. > > -Todd > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
