<div dir="ltr">I want to expose the media collection over DBus, so that the user can choose the media from the kdeconnect app.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Aleix Pol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aleixpol@kde.org" target="_blank">aleixpol@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Ashish Madeti <<a href="mailto:ashishmadeti@gmail.com">ashishmadeti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I do need to create a custom DBus interface in PMC, for controlling it<br>
> through remote control in kdeconnect. I also plan to extend the interface to<br>
> expose the media collection available to PMC, so that the user can choose a<br>
> media from the whole collection rather than just the current playlist.<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Aleix Pol <<a href="mailto:aleixpol@kde.org">aleixpol@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Ashish Madeti <<a href="mailto:ashishmadeti@gmail.com">ashishmadeti@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hi all !!<br>
>> > I discussed with Albert, Shantanu and several others about a project for<br>
>> > this year's GSoC. I want to improve the MPRIS plug-in of kdeconnect by<br>
>> > adding tracklist MPRIS interface support and want to create a custom<br>
>> > plug-in<br>
>> > which acts as a remote control for Plasma Media Centre.<br>
>> > I also wanted to add several more features like:<br>
>> > 1) Showing cover art of the now playing media [1].<br>
>> > 2) Notification area support [2].<br>
>> > 3) Lock screen support [3].<br>
>> ><br>
>> > As Albert mentioned that he won't be able to mentor the project, is it<br>
>> > possible for someone else in the kdeconnect team to mentor me?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > What do you think of these features? I saw a branch in the<br>
>> > kdeconnect-android repo with name "feature/noti-mediacontrol", so is<br>
>> > somebody else working on the second feature, or is it OK to include it<br>
>> > in my<br>
>> > GSoC project?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > [1] <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345015" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345015</a><br>
>> > [2] <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337529" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337529</a><br>
>> > [3] <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337485" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337485</a><br>
>><br>
>> There's a review request doing [2] and [3]. It's not quite done yet and<br>
>> stale.<br>
>> <a href="https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122486/" target="_blank">https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122486/</a><br>
>><br>
>> I think the features are interesting but definitely not enough for a<br>
>> GSoC project. If your project is about improving stuff in PMC and then<br>
>> doing a couple of patches in KDE Connect, then it can be fine.<br>
>><br>
>> Aleix<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Ashish Madeti<br>
<br>
</div></div>* small clarification, you don't need to create anything. You want to. ;-) *<br>
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You want to expose the media collection available to PMC? Isn't it<br>
already available to PMC? Or you want to expose it in MPRIS?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Aleix<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><b>Ashish Madeti</b></div></div></div>
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