Remote control feature on Amarok

Lukas 1lukas1 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 16:46:55 CET 2010


Oh just just remembered

Since SC 4.4 plasmoids has a Sharing plasmoids functionality built in. I
havent used that feature yet, but i guess it has a lot in common with what I
wrote about :)

p.s. I'm more a user, not a Amarok dev and can't provide mucth techincal
help

On 18 March 2010 17:23, Milot Shala <milot.shala at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It would be dam great to have fully featured remote control solution for
>> KDE.
>>
>> One of the best phone i had was SE k700i because of its support of HID
>> (human interface device). SE also had provided a suite to creating your own
>> profiles, so i was able to control everything from presentation, mouse,
>> media player etc.
>>
>> We have LIRC for IR connection, we have WebUI for Internet connections, i
>> guess there should be something for bluetooth too.
>>
>> Why do I, as an end user, should "bother" about protocols and similar
>> stuff?
>>
>> Having chain like
>> [dbus | keyboard and mouse emulator] <-> KRemoteControlCenter <->
>> [Bluetooth | IR | WiFi | internet] <-> [Iphone | UIQ | S60 | Android | etc]
>>
>> Where communication would be standardized and any device could load xml
>> based profile and choose the best link (bt or wifi etc) to the desktop.
>>
>> So any app could have remote control support just by creating simple xml
>> file. Not talking about pushing feedback to connected user Like "kget just
>> finished distro.x.y.iso.\n Hash check completed.\n Blank CD detected, would
>> you like to burn iso?" form anywhere anytime.
>>
>> Hope you got my point :)
>>
>>
>>
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> Hi Lucas,
>
> I really like your idea and would be perfect to make that happening! For
> that reason I started this topic but my interests were mainly applying such
> functionality to Amarok, but it can be a nice interface to implement it on
> KDE as a whole!
>
> Currently I am trying DBus interfaces of Amarok, I will be back here again.
>
> --
> Milot Shala, Software Engineer
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