Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2014, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > The frameworks branch of PMC now contains a Plasma Shell which basically > > loads the required QML components and looks/works exactly the same[1]. So > > technically we are good to go if a user wants her desktop to be a media > > center. > > > > However, it'll be nice if we can discuss on how the actual workflow could > > be for a user. Here are some things I can imagine- > > > > * User can have a mediacenter activity which she can switch to for > getting > > the multimedia experience. > > I'm not sure how much it can work as activity, > if you want that tough most o the mediacenter UI QML should be moved in a > single containment (that may be good as well) while now is iirc mostly in > the > view of the desktop package > Do you mean that the current implementation won't support it, or the idea itself is not good? > > > > * Or, maybe she can configure the mediacenter shell to activate whenever > an > > external TV screen is connected (through HDMI or something). > > it could either switch the shell or just launch the standalone application > (launching the application should be easy, maybe configurable from kscreen > kcm?) > Or, maybe plasmashell exposes a D-Bus API that can load shells on the fly? +1 for the kscreen kcm, I think it should be a nice feature in general. > > > * The device is a dedicated mediacenter device - the user tells Plasma to > > always load mediacenter instead of deskop > > I think there should eventually be a session shipped by it so is just > possible > to login into it from the login manager > Guess the session will always run the same startkde script, how can we tell plasmashell (rhymes :P) what to load? > > > -- > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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