2010/4/21 Christophe Olinger <oling...@binarylooks.com> > 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. > The love you're putting inside this project is admirable with no doubt :-). The release stuff is something probably a bit early to think about since we want users to be happy since from the first release (at least i'd like to :) and therefore i was thinking about making this project an extragear one. But i'm not so updated with release stuff so you probably can suggest something that suits better. > > 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 > Youtube and flickr dataengines are there though :p Likely we'll have some more love for them if the PMC API and DataEngines GSoC proposal gets accepted > - keyboard, remote and wiimote control of everything > - Beautification of the UI > +1 of course! The states stuff will ensure this to be accomplished! - Performance work > I wanted to look into this some time ago. Will do next week most probably! > - 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! > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > Anyway let's all keep trying to make this project rock :-) Cheers -- Alessandro Diaferia KDE Developer KDE e.V. member
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