<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/29 Aaron J. Seigo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On March 26, 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote:<br>
> This is not 100 % true. At the moment Shantanu and me try to have it<br>
> also scale down to netbook size screens. This will be a bigger user<br>
> base in the future than big tv screens IMHO. Also that is my<br>
<br>
</div>i should have been more specific. by "large screens" i meant things larger<br>
than the n900 or the Jax10's we had at tokamak 4.<br>
<br>
i think a primary use case for PMC will be laptops, with T.V.s being a<br>
secodary one.<br>
<br>
as Zack points out, more important than screen size, however, is the input<br>
device. on pocketable devices, that is your finger (or, at worst, a stylus).<br>
on laptops, that's a keyboard and mouse. on a T.V. it's a hand-held remote<br>
control.<br>
<br>
i don't think we can sanely target both pocketable devices and laptops/T.V.s<br>
due to this. i do think we can target both laptops and T.V.s, however. the<br>
reason for this is that while the T.V. is limited by a remote control input,<br>
on the laptop use case when one fires up a full screen mediacenter (which is<br>
what PMC should be) you want to go into a simplified user experience that is<br>
centered around media viewing.<br>
<br>
if you want something richer, that doesn't take over the whole display and<br>
with more point-and-click finesse, that's what apps like kaffeine and amarok<br>
are for.<br>
<br>
this means that PMC only needs to address the same audiences that plasma-<br>
desktop or plasma-netbook would, and should be aiming for a UI that is clear<br>
enough that even a remote control is good enough.<br>
<br>
to go down this path a little bit more, even, here are some typical use cases<br>
i have in mind for PMC based on observation of today's typical computer user:<br>
<br>
* Joe is on a train / airplane travelling between two cities. The trip is long<br>
enough to watch the latest episode of his favourite T.V. show which he<br>
downloaded the night before from his PVR at home. Joe pops open his laptop,<br>
clicks on the Desktop Toolbox and selects "Media Center". PMC loads and he<br>
selects "Video", which presents a list of videos on his internal hard drive.<br>
<br>
* Jane is at home and wants to show her dinner guests pictures from the recent<br>
weekend trip she went on. Jane plugs her laptop into the living room<br>
television, opens the application launcher (Kickoff, Lancelot) and selects<br>
"Media Center". PMC starts up and she selects "Photos" which shows various<br>
sets of photo albums. After going through the "Weekend Ski Trip" photos, she<br>
goes back and selects Videos -> Youtube and loads a Youtube playlist of top 40<br>
music videos to play in the background while they visit.<br>
<br>
* Jaqueline sits down on the couch with her husband Jack and they turn on the<br>
television and their Plasma Media Center set top box.</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> They grab the remote<br></blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>or, better, their Wii Mote and just shake it =)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
control and check the videos that they had recorded / downloaded but haven't<br>
watched yet. They select an episode of House and another of Fawlty Towers and<br>
press "Play". </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
now, these are the use cases i have in my mind. they may be different from<br>
those working on PMC have. hopefully not, but it's certainly possible. :) we<br>
should therefore get to documenting what's being done here. i've gone ahead<br>
and started a page here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's great Aaron, i'll spread the voice! </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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feel free to change any and all content and add, add, add more to it.<br>
<br>
the use cases above do provide some interesting insights, though: it would be<br>
sensible to have a Digikam photo provider for PMC so that one can create their<br>
photo albums in Digikam and then later view those same albums in PMC. it would<br>
be sensible to have some notion of what's been watched and be able to set up<br>
simple "playlists" by selecting mutiple items from a list of available media.<br>
it doesn't matter if PMC works on the N900 well.<br>
<br>
thoughts?<br>
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