On Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:25:48 pm Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On July 15, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > Also adding plasma-devel to the CC > > 2010/7/15 Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jar...@gmail.com> > > > Is Plasma Media Center going to be a workspace or an app that runs in > > > another > > > workspace? > > > > > > If it's the latter then we'd better give some serious thought to the > > > branding: > > > Plasma is the brand for our workspaces and things can get confusing if > > > we break with that. > > > > > > KDE's product groups: > > > Libs -> KDE Platform > > > Workspaces -> Plasma Desktop, Plasma Netbook, Plasma Mobile > > > Apps -> Many names, but not Plasma something > > > > Hey Stu, first of all thanks for the point which is really important. > > Actually, Plasma Media Center is intended as a stand-alone application > > and its development is going into this direction. The fact that we call > > it Plasma Media Center is due to the use of the Plasma technologies to > > develop it. Ok, I gathered at Akademy (probably at your talk) that it would be a standalone app. The branding issue didn't occur to me at the time, but I had assumed it was a workspace because of the Plasma label and also written about it as if it was a workspace in a few places.
Possibly the use of the Plasma libraries is a good reason to call it Plasma, we just need to discuss. Alternatively, maybe we have the app which is called $something and can run anywhere and also a very simple Plasma Media Center workspace for full-time Media Center pcs that pretty much Plasma Desktop with different defaults: no panels and maybe just a couple of system monitor widgets, a button to launch $something and that launches $something full screen on login. So you can use $something on your Plasma Netbook powered laptop that you plug in to your TV to watch a video, but your little PC that sits under the TV all the time has Plasma Media Center because you don't use it for anything else. > > So, probably, your point is valid and we should start > > thinkin' about a proper name for it. > > I'd like some other Plasma-devs to give their opinion on this. Cool. There's time up until 1.0 or a tech preview push with one of the distros to get this worked out. > I've been interested in Plasma Media Center for quite some time now. And I > think it makes the most sense to be a workspace app like plasma-desktop. > Though it would make even more sense to take over some minimal window > manager duties too, or at least integrate somewhat with kwin. That way if > other applications are launched they don't take completely over, like if > you wanted to start firefox or rekonq to view some web site on your TV, > getting back to the media center interface isn't a struggle if you only > have a remote control. Kinda like how the plasma mobile and plasma phone > interfaces change how things work, the plasma media center probably should > too. I'm not going to get involved in that discussion (if there is one). Cheers, Stu _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
