<span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Seb Ruiz</b> <<a href="mailto:ruiz@kde.org">ruiz@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
On 11/07/07, Leo Franchi <<a href="mailto:lfranchi@gmail.com">lfranchi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 7/10/07, Maximilian Kossick <<a href="mailto:mkossick@gmx.de">mkossick@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>> > SNIP
<br>> > > ><br>> > > > So I guess the plan is to make Amarok::ContextView another formfactor<br>> > > > (like desktop, panel, mediacenter). Does that mean we need to expend<br>> > > > some enum in plasma?
<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Is there drag and drop support already? Some day I want to be able to<br>> > > > drag plasmoids out of CV to plasma.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Do we need a data engine inside of Amarok, the same process. It seems
<br>> > > > kind of strange that the CV widgets talk to Amarok through an external<br>> > > > process.<br>> > ><br>> > > well, not exactly. the way you are thinking of the new contextview is
<br>> > > like simply<br>> > > another facet of plasma, e.g<br>> > > . plasma "extended" into amarok. thats not actually how it (currently)<br>> > > works.<br>> > ><br>
> > > right now i've copied/modified the relevant source files from the<br>> > > plasma source tree into amarok. so we have our "own"<br>> > > plasma. we will have our own plugins, with our own servicetype. now,
<br>> > > it would be cool<br>> > > if we could just drag and drop from plasma<->amarok, but that i think is<br>> > > something to think about in the future. we can't have amarok be another
<br>> > > another formfactor of plasma for a few reasons:<br>> ><br>> > I know that there are formfactors for putting plasmoids into horizontal or<br>> > vertical task bars. Amarok's context view has some space constraints too.
<br>> Did<br>> > you already investigate which plasma formfactor we should use when putting<br>> > stuff into the context view?<br>><br>> yes, there are form factors for plasmoids. but they are not<br>
> exactly applicable to us. basically, the<br>> planar form factor mean you have 2 degrees of<br>> freedom (like normal). there is then a<br>> mediacenter form factor which assumes tha the user<br>> is ~10ft away from the screen---not
<br>> exactly applicable to us. and then there is a<br>> horizontal/vertical form factor that<br>> constrain the applet's movement in one of the<br>> two directions.<br><br>I'm thinking this could be really freaking cool, imagining a jukebox
<br>setup, with the playlist (upcoming tracks) and the context view with a<br>giant cover image and some artist info etc.</blockquote><div><br>then we can finally silence all the feature requests for a jukebox mode.... </div>
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