Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
I'll try to update the wiki page today adding the things we discussed here and also the StateMachine Rewriting. I'll get some hacking time maybe in the evening but I'll make sure to learn all about StateMachines before that. Cheerioh Chris On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrot

Re: 4.5 - Activities

2010-03-30 Thread Chani
On March 26, 2010 11:58:13 Ivan Čukić wrote: > Updates: > - all manager signals converted into listener objects > - consumer signals left as is (they are not invoked that often, and are >something most applications should respond to eventually) > - changed d-bus API to fit the style of other

playground/base/plasma/MediaCenterComponents

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
SVN commit 1109276 by sebas: New class to interact with a Wiimote The class uses the cwiid library from http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/ to detect the wiimote, read its settings and receive events. Currently supported: - buttons - switching LEDs on and off - rumble to switch haptic feedback on a

Re: global menu bar for gsoc

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, Ivan Ruchkin wrote: > 2010/3/29 Aaron J. Seigo > > > On March 28, 2010, you wrote: > > > My name is Ivan, I'd like to improve global Mac-OS style menu bar as my > > > GSoC project. > > > Can you please point me to the development code of it? > > > How does it corellate with XBa

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
> On 2010-03-30 16:59:21, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > First the administrivia ;) Please watch the whitespace; for core plasma > > code we use http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Kdelibs_Coding_Style ... that > > means things such as 4 space indents rather than tabs and "if (foo)" rather > > than "if(f

Re: global menu bar for gsoc

2010-03-30 Thread Ivan Ruchkin
2010/3/29 Aaron J. Seigo > On March 28, 2010, you wrote: > > My name is Ivan, I'd like to improve global Mac-OS style menu bar as my > > GSoC project. > > Can you please point me to the development code of it? > > How does it corellate with XBar plasmoid? > > there is a fairly old start to such a

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > Thanks Aaron. This sounds great. I'll try to focus on that on my next > hacking sessions. I might have a lot of questions though. > > Shantanu, is it ok for you if i focus on this? Yes, it will be very nice :) > > Also, i'll forget

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
Thanks Aaron. This sounds great. I'll try to focus on that on my next hacking sessions. I might have a lot of questions though. Shantanu, is it ok for you if i focus on this? Also, i'll forget about a main home screen and focus on a browser showing all available dataengines grouped into the

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron Seigo
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3396/#review4790 --- First the administrivia ;) Please watch the whitespace; for core plasm

Re: Regarding GSoC Plasmoid data caching project

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, shruti jain wrote: > Presently, plasmoids such as news etc do not show anything when Plasma > netbooks are disconnected from the network. The idea is to use the cached > data when network is not available and refresh when network is available. > I think that the project can be ex

Re: Plasma Media Center Wiki page on techbase

2010-03-30 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On March 30, 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> I have added a "Usage workflow" part to the wiki page.What do you think? > > that's great, as is Shantanu's additions. it may change in future (and you may > be the one to change it :) and that

Re: Regarding GSoC Plasmoid data caching project

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, todd rme wrote: > possible, this should probably be done at the dataengine level, rather > than the plasmoid level. correct. > Speaking of which, if it isn't already implemented already (it may > be), it might be nice if various web service data engines that are > looking for t

Re: Plasma Media Center Wiki page on techbase

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > I have added a "Usage workflow" part to the wiki page.What do you think? that's great, as is Shantanu's additions. it may change in future (and you may be the one to change it :) and that's 100% ok. documenting where we are now and where we think we

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 16:56:44 daithe...@free.fr wrote: > > - "todd rme" a écrit : > > > I don't think focusing this on HD devices is necessarily a good move. > > > There are still a huge number of standard-definition TV's out there > > > and the

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > The thing can run on a conventional notebook, or netbook, or whatever > > hardware you want it to, the important things when using a TV as output > > device are: > > > > - input: mice don'

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, daithe...@free.fr wrote: > > I might misunderstood the aim of the "browser", but I don't think this > > will be code duplication : you don't browse Music the same way you > > browse Movies or TV Shows, do you ? > > yes i do, what c

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On March 30, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > that "home applet" if you want it really isolated could be a different > containment, so would be a totally standaloe fullscreen thing, but i don't > think i like it. it can almost certainly be run in the same, simple "full screen" containment that the ful

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 16:59:54 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: >>     Whoa, just been off for few hours and so much discussion! Too bad >> I arrived late :P >> >> Christohpe, as Marco said, we will be having the Browser display the >> list o

Re: Plasma-devel Digest, Vol 21, Issue 98

2010-03-30 Thread shruti jain
> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:13:58 shruti jain wrote: > > I am a final year student of computer science. I intend to contribute to > > plasma and see GSoC 2010 as a good starting point for that. I have > > participated in GSoC 2009 as well. I am proficient in C/C++ and network > > programming as

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 16:56:44 daithe...@free.fr wrote: > - "todd rme" a écrit : > > I don't think focusing this on HD devices is necessarily a good move. > > There are still a huge number of standard-definition TV's out there > > and there probably will be for some time. > > > I agree, + n

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 16:59:54 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > Whoa, just been off for few hours and so much discussion! Too bad > I arrived late :P > > Christohpe, as Marco said, we will be having the Browser display the > list of plugins (and hence modes) anyway, so we can maximize it to the

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hello, Whoa, just been off for few hours and so much discussion! Too bad I arrived late :P Christohpe, as Marco said, we will be having the Browser display the list of plugins (and hence modes) anyway, so we can maximize it to the whole screen and kind of use it as the Home applet. But yes, if

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread daitheflu
- "todd rme" a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Sebastian Kügler > wrote: > > On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> thoughts? > > > > I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary > usecase bit. I really > > think that this thing should be d

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> thoughts? > > I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary usecase bit. > I really > think that this thing should be developed to have its UI run on a TV, > pre

Re: Regarding GSoC Plasmoid data caching project

2010-03-30 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:13 AM, shruti jain wrote: > Hello everyone ! > > I am a final year student of computer science. I intend to contribute to > plasma and see GSoC 2010 as a good starting point for that. I have > participated in GSoC 2009 as well. I am proficient in C/C++ and network > progr

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > > > i fear this is just useless code duplication, really. > > for this fullscreen menu you need exactly the same functionality of the > > browser. > > Wouldn't it just be different startup models? > > > (see ugly mockup here: general home

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, daithe...@free.fr wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm new here, so please be indulgent :) > > > i fear this is just useless code duplication, really. > > for this fullscreen menu you need exactly the same functionality of > > the > > browser. > > I might misunderstood the aim of

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM, wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm new here, so please be indulgent :) So am I :-) > > > - "Marco Martin" a écrit : > >> On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin >> wrote: >> > > On Tuesday 30 March 201

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread daitheflu
Hi list, I'm new here, so please be indulgent :) - "Marco Martin" a écrit : > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin > wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Ma

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin wrote: >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin wrote: >> >> > On Tuesda

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > >> >> Hey every

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
Hallo Nuno, I actually took your mocks in the MOCKS folder in SVN for the basic UI. One top panel with controls, one bottom panel with information (like a music anlayzer for example). In the middle a browser with a big grid layout of our items. What would be cool is a mockup of a Home Screen for P

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin wrote: >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> >> Hey everybody, >> >> >> >> I think it will be really difficult to have

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
2010/3/30 Marco Martin > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > >> Hey everybody, > > >> > > >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" >

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread nuno pinheiro
A Terça, 30 de Março de 2010 12:17:03 Sebastian Kügler você escreveu: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:12:04 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:00:27 Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > > > (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a > > > > Qt-style class that >

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > >> Hey everybody, > >> > >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" > >> screens right down to 5" screens.

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> Hey everybody, >> >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" >> screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel for >> playback control (and mo

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > Hey everybody, > > I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" > screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel for > playback control (and mode switching) and will use a bottom panel for i don't think

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
For better evaluation, I have summarized the current procedure Currently the controller does the follwing: * on init() it creates and configures all icons and buttons that we might ever need for all modes * it waits for a signal from the containment to hide/show buttons and lay them out. This is t

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:22:16 Christophe Olinger wrote: > I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" > screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel for > playback control (and mode switching) and will use a bottom panel for > displaying information a

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
Hey everybody, I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel for playback control (and mode switching) and will use a bottom panel for displaying information about media. The bottom panel might be reusable for a

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:12:04 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:00:27 Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > > (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a > > > Qt-style class that > > > can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, buttons, LEDs, > >

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:10:46 Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a > > Qt-style class that can be used to interact with the features of a > > wiimote, buttons, LEDs, accelerometers and hapti

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:00:27 Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a > > Qt-style class that > > can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, buttons, LEDs, > > accelerometers > > and haptic feedback at this point. I've got my

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a Qt-style > class that can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, > buttons, LEDs, accelerometers and haptic feedback at this point. I've got > myself a copy of O'Reilly

Re: PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
2010/3/30 Sebastian Kügler > On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > thoughts? > > I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary usecase > bit. I really > think that this thing should be developed to have its UI run on a TV, > preferably HD- > Ready or Full-HD

Re: Regarding GSoC Plasmoid data caching project

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 09:13:58 shruti jain wrote: > I am a final year student of computer science. I intend to contribute to > plasma and see GSoC 2010 as a good starting point for that. I have > participated in GSoC 2009 as well. I am proficient in C/C++ and network > programming as well. I hav

PMC use case

2010-03-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > thoughts? I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary usecase bit. I really think that this thing should be developed to have its UI run on a TV, preferably HD- Ready or Full-HD resolution. Those devices tend to be eas

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
> On 2010-03-30 07:25:58, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > I was wondering whether it is the case to group the instructions inside > > MediaContainment::doLayout inside internal specific QGraphicsWidget or, at > > least, inside internal functions in order to avoid cluttering of the code. > > Tha

Re: Plasma Media Center Wiki page on techbase

2010-03-30 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Christophe Olinger wrote: > I have added a "Usage workflow" part to the wiki page.What do you think? Should be fine. Also, I've been trying to edit the page for a long time now, but the editor simply refuses to load. Maybe problem with the connection. Can you also

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
> On 2010-03-30 07:25:58, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > I was wondering whether it is the case to group the instructions inside > > MediaContainment::doLayout inside internal specific QGraphicsWidget or, at > > least, inside internal functions in order to avoid cluttering of the code. > > Tha

Re: Plasma Media Center Wiki page on techbase

2010-03-30 Thread Christophe Olinger
I have added a "Usage workflow" part to the wiki page.What do you think? On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Christophe Olinger wrote: > Thanks Aaron, > > That's exactly the way we are currently going. > > Switching modes and having sensible controls and the right connections > for each mode is 90 %

Re: Review Request: Initial work on the flexible controller of the Plasma Media Center

2010-03-30 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3396/#review4768 --- I was wondering whether it is the case to group the instructions insid

Regarding GSoC Plasmoid data caching project

2010-03-30 Thread shruti jain
Hello everyone ! I am a final year student of computer science. I intend to contribute to plasma and see GSoC 2010 as a good starting point for that. I have participated in GSoC 2009 as well. I am proficient in C/C++ and network programming as well. I have also been the system administrator of my