<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/30 Sebastian Kügler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebas@kde.org">sebas@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:<br>
> thoughts?<br>
<br>
I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary usecase bit. I really<br>
think that this thing should be developed to have its UI run on a TV, preferably HD-<br>
Ready or Full-HD resolution. Those devices tend to be easily hooked up with a<br>
computer nowadays (as Jane knows), (ours has both HDMI and D-Sub and is also a fine<br>
monitor). The key difference is wether to rely on a mouse pointer or not, and how<br>
interaction looks like otherwise.<br>
<br>
Now that's of course me being selfish, because I, at some point, want to use PMC on<br>
this kind of device as my Media Center. What I have in mind is roughly:<br>
<br>
- PMC running on a netbook or comparatively cheap hardware<br>
- easily controllable from a 10 foot distance, using a remote control or a wiimote<br>
- connected to the Internet, so web video (youtube, blip, miro, ...) should be first<br>
class citizens<br>
- access to the local and networked media library (in the same way ("it doesn't<br>
matter where it's stored") via SMB, uPnP, HTTP<br>
- built-in web browser that's basically usable by a remote / wiimote(*) as well<br>
- full-screen media player with overlaid Plasma widgets to control playback and<br>
playlist<br>
- good bookmarking support (favourites for web and local videos, easy way to<br>
find/remember the current/next episode of a TV show)<br>
- contextual information for content (Nepomuk, IMDB, discogs, ...)<br>
- Remotely editable playlist (pull up your notebook / n900 and edit the playlist on<br>
the PMC without interrupting playback)<br>
<br>
The key is really to support commodity hardware, things people already have or can<br>
get rather inexpensively and turn it into a media center with little effort<br>
(basically install PMC, and hook up the TV to it).<br>
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(*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a Qt-style class that<br>
can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, buttons, LEDs, accelerometers<br>
and haptic feedback at this point. I've got myself a copy of O'Reilly's "designing<br>
gestural interfaces", and I think we can get quite far, from a functionality and an<br>
intuitiveness point of view by using such a device as main controller. That's<br>
something I work on in a lost hour here and there.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you have some code i can look at/contribute to? I have a wiimote and I'd like to start playing with it for the PMC. Am I supposed to have infrared on my laptop?</div>
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<br>
Some of the above are quite specific ideas, and it might be different from what other<br>
people think about it. In any event, while developing, please keep the above in mind,<br>
so I won't have to do it all myself when I scratch my itches. :)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
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