<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/25 Marco Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com">notmart@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Alessandro Diaferia<br>
<<a href="mailto:alediaferia@gmail.com">alediaferia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello people,<br>
> it's been a while since the last time you heard about me :-) I'm busy with<br>
> my thesis and everything will be over by the end of April. In the meantime,<br>
> anyway, i'd like to see the mediacenter stuff back again :-).<br>
> I have some ideas here and there in my mind to make concrete for the<br>
> mediacenter but one thing that reached a good point of maturity was the<br>
> backend library. I'd like to suggest this as GSoC project for the<br>
> mediacenter and i'd like to be mentor for this.<br>
<br>
</div>i would be very happy to see this going<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The idea briefly:<br>
> there's some sort of complete api already that allows people to write<br>
> backends able to retrieve media stuff from services like youtube, picasa,<br>
> flickr and so on.. I was working on some generic dataengines for this<br>
> together with kde-silk people and i'd like to see this part complete.<br>
> YouTube, Flicker and Picasa have their own backends already even if some<br>
> work is still there to be done. The project would be about making these<br>
> backends ready and develop the relevant models for the model/view stuff of<br>
> the mediabrowser applet in order to allow browsing media contents from web<br>
> services. This way we reach 2 goals: a good example of how kde-silk is<br>
> important and one brick more in the huge wall media center land is.<br>
><br>
> Ideas are really really welcome.<br>
><br>
</div>another important thing is getting the ui really going.<br>
probably it would be easier this year since we actually have qml in a<br>
near release state (see plasma-mobile), compared to last year<br></blockquote><div><br>Then that could be one idea more i think! :-) And of course you are adding yourself as mentor, right? =) (because i'm not so experienced with qml).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Marco MArtin<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">I'm going to try qml deeply soon then.. In the while can i add those ideas to the wiki page?<br>-- <br>Alessandro Diaferia<br>KDE Developer<br>KDE e.V. member<br><br>