<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/4/21 Christophe Olinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olingerc@binarylooks.com">olingerc@binarylooks.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;">
Dear plasma friends,<br><br>I wanted to give you a quick heads up on how far the plasma media center has come in the recent weeks. I'll coordinate with the other contributors to blog about it soonish.<br><br>On Startup:<br>
You see only 3 buttons at the moment: local music, local pictures and local videos. Clicking on any of these buttons switches the mediacenter to a certain state. (Later you will have here you tube, flickr, picasa, ownCloud :-)<br>
<br>Music Mode:<br>Here, you see a browser (grid or list view) only showing music, you have a control bar with typical playback control buttons and seek/volume slider and a playlist. The playlist also only shows music files. Clicking on a file in the browser adds it to the playlist, clicking on a file in the playlist starts to play the file. Browser, controlbar and playlist remain visible while music is playing.<br>
<br>Video Mode<br>Same as above except that the browser and the playlist only show video files. Clicking on a file in the browser again adds to the playlist, clicking on the playlist starts the video file in fullscreen mode. The controlbar and playlist automatically turn to an autohide mode but are accessible via the screen edges.<br>
<br>Picture Mode<br>Here there is no playlist :-p.<br>The browser again only shows pictures and clicking on one will show it fullscreen with the controlbar turing to autohide. I still need to implement the slideshow mode but that will be easy.<br>
<br>The controlbar<br>In addition to the mode specific buttons, this applet always has a button to return to the startup screen one button to return to the previous directory and one button to toggle the autohide function of the control bar and to show/hide the playlist (only music and video state). It also has a tab widget that allows changing the browser display, like show albums, show artists,...This doesn't work yet.<br>
<br>Background modes<br>The cool thing is, you can run these 3 modes in parallel! For example listening to music and looking at pictures is completely possible. You can also look at a video and have music in the background (if you think you have to :-) In every mode you see little icons that tell you which other modes are currently active and clicking on them switches to that mode.<br>
<br>Ok, so far for the little update. You see that the mediacenter is usable in its current state but it also needs a lot of work still. I hope we will increase our development speed exponentially as soon as Shaan comes out of exam mode and Alessandro has more time. Currently the project lives in my git repo on gitorious (the playlist focus on one mediatype is still on my local drive) but I hope I can get it into svn this week and also have a nice sexy blog post. </blockquote>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">By the way, I am almost sure that this will NOT be part of any KDE release this year. Sorry.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>The love you're putting inside this project is admirable with no doubt :-). The release stuff is something probably a bit early to think about since we want users to be happy since from the first release (at least i'd like to :) and therefore i was thinking about making this project an extragear one. But i'm not so updated with release stuff so you probably can suggest something that suits better.<br>
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<br>I want to thank Alessandro, Marco, Shaan, Sebastian and Aaron for their precious help and I am looking forward to further contribute with all of you.<br><br>And here a small screenshot (sorry, I only have one video file on my netbook so I can not show you nice picture thumbnails :-)<br>
<a href="http://www.imagebin.ca/view/81paK7U.html" target="_blank">http://www.imagebin.ca/view/81paK7U.html</a><br><br><br>Christophe Olinger aka binarylooks<br><br><br><span><code></code></span>Here are some things that still need to be done:<br>
- More dataengines like youtube, flickr, nepomuk<br></blockquote><div><br>Youtube and flickr dataengines are there though :p Likely we'll have some more love for them if the PMC API and DataEngines GSoC proposal gets accepted<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">- keyboard, remote and wiimote control of everything<br>- Beautification of the UI<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><div>+1 of course! The states stuff will ensure this to be accomplished!<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
- Performance work<br></blockquote><div><br>I wanted to look into this some time ago. Will do next week most probably!<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
- Minimal image manipulation: rotate,...<br>- Zoom images and browser<br>
- Information bar that allows rating, tagging, shows the current directory, music analyzer,...<br>- Picture slideshow mode<br>- Lots of testing and bugfixing, this is preAlpha state!<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Anyway let's all keep trying to make this project rock :-)<br><br>Cheers<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alessandro Diaferia<br>KDE Developer<br>KDE e.V. member<br><br>