On July 15, 2010, Stuart Jarvis wrote: > 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).
Sorry, I was just trying to justify why I thought it should be a workspace if it isn't. > Cheers, > Stu > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellst...@shaw.ca _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
