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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Shantanu,</span><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the feedback. I have mentioned a lot more ideas which were categorized by different sections like Music, etc. in my earlier mails to Sinny. I hope you went through them all. If not, please visit those mails and give me your feedback for that as well. For the convenience of reading those emails with ease, I have mentioned the word "<b>IDEA</b>" just before the idea is being explained. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and Regards,</div><div>Saurabh Jain</div><div><br><br><div><div id="ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Message: 2<br>> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:41:11 +0530<br>> From: Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in@gmail.com><br>> To: plasma-devel@kde.org<br>> Subject: Re: FW: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>> Message-ID:<br>> <CABQ4Km_BMesjjQ0g7H9exOP9AAu-WGNs6ebdATAuXoGmi=Sghg@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Hi Saurabh,<br>> <br>> Nice to see your interest in Plasma Media Center, find my comments inline.<br>> Also, you don't have to use sir/madam etc in your emails, just use people's<br>> names to address them :)<br>> <br>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj@hotmail.com>wrote:<br>> <br>> > Dear sir/mam,<br>> > Please went through the below forwarded mail which is in continuation to<br>> > what Sinny mam had presented her views on my earlier ideas. In my last<br>> > email, I have mentioned 2 more improvements so I request you to please give<br>> > your feedback to me.<br>> > Also, I apologize for not sending my past e-mails to "plasma-devel@kde.org<br>> > ".<br>> ><br>> > Thanks and Regards,<br>> > Saurabh Jain<br>> ><br>> > ------------------------------<br>> > From: saurabhskj@hotmail.com<br>> > To: ksinny@gmail.com<br>> > Subject: RE: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>> > Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:26:41 +0530<br>> ><br>> > Thank you.<br>> > All music, All pictures and All Videos are still not working on my system<br>> > even after reinstalling the nepomuk packages. When restarting the<br>> > nepomukindexer, I get the following error in the end- Error:<br>> > "/var/tmp/kdecache-saurabh" is owned by uid 1001 instead of uid 0. I will<br>> > try to resolve this issue with nepomuk community.<br>> ><br>> > Yes, shuffle mode is working well and mistakenly I pointed it out as<br>> > missing. What I would like to point out is once you have created a<br>> > playlist, you cannot rearrange the existing order of songs to the desired<br>> > one. The only way, which I found, to do so is to create an another playlist<br>> > from the beginning.<br>> ><br>> <br>> Yes, manual ordering will be a nice thing to implement.<br>> <br>> ><br>> > One more improvement which I would like to mention in *Pictures* section<br>> > is that in presence of *proxy server*, picasa is unable to connect to the<br>> > google account or to load the pictures.<br>> ><br>> <br>> PMC should pick up the proxy settings from your proxy settings in Network<br>> Settings in KDE system settings. You should check that.<br>> <br>> <br>> > Also, pressing the "tab" key after entering the email id in google account<br>> > section does not move the cursor to next section, i.e., password textbox.<br>> > Keyboard does not seem to produce any output in some other situations as<br>> > well.<br>> ><br>> <br>> Yep that sounds like a good idea :)<br>> <br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> > Saurabh Jain<br>> ><br>> > ------------------------------<br>> > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:46:37 +0530<br>> ><br>> > Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>> > From: ksinny@gmail.com<br>> > To: saurabhskj@hotmail.com<br>> > CC: Plasma-devel@kde.org<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Doing CC to plasma-devel<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Thanks Saurabh for you effort. Nice start!<br>> ><br>> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj@hotmail.com>wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Dear mam,<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for replying me back and presenting your views. Yes, you were right<br>> > and I did deviate from the main point as I used the software and liked the<br>> > idea of building such an application and therefore I thought more in<br>> > enhancing and incorporating new features in it.<br>> > I forgot to mention some of the improvements, which I think, can be done<br><b>IDEA - </b>> > in this application. The "<b>open with</b>" menu option which I mentioned in my<br>> > first mail also needs to be improved as the user can see this application<br>> > in the above menu but due to lack of functionality provided on the back<br>> > end, the user does not get the desired output response.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > +1<br>> > I like this idea, this need to be implemented.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Improvements in following sections can be:-<br><b>IDEA - </b>> > *<b>Music</b>* *:-<br>> > *Search engine (in Songs, Album, etc.) does not seem to work at all. I<br>> > tried searching for a music which is also there in the playlist but did not<br>> > get any results (neither did it respond with search failure nor with song<br>> > found). Improving the song search can have an alternative if sorting<br>> > feature is introduced by virtue of which user can sort the albums, songs<br>> > etc according to their names. Player can be enhanced with modes like<br>> > repeat, shuffle, etc. and reordering of songs in the playlist is also not<br>> > there.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Ummm, For me search works fine for Artist, Album and songs works fine but<br>> > yeah, it doesn't display message when search result is zero.<br>> ><br>> > Shuffle works in Playlist. Repeat option can be added.<br>> > Sorting of media is needed on the basis of different field like size,<br>> > date, name, length etc.<br>> ><br>> ><br><b>IDEA - </b>> > *<b>Pictures</b>:-<br>> > *Again, clicking on "All Picture" does not produce any results. Every<br>> > time if the user has to view the pictures, he/she has to browse the<br>> > pictures in the folders first and then load it. Further, just like we have<br>> > the option to select some files and play them only, in a similar fashion,<br>> > we can have option to select some pictures and then view them via slide<br>> > show.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > I guess, your Nepomuk indexer is not running or maybe haven't indexed your<br>> > picture directory. Check with that then All Picture will work fine.<br>> ><br>> > Yeah, we can think of viewing selected pictures in slideshow.<br>> ><br>> ><br><b>IDEA - </b>> > *<b>Videos</b>:-<br>> > *The full screen mode toggle button can be added into video section so<br>> > that the user can directly watch the video in full screen mode. Also, many<br>> > a times, it happens that the user downloads the subtitles of the movie<br>> > which he/she wants to watch as the movie is not in his/her native language.<br>> > For eg. if the movie's name is abc.avi, the subtitle's file is renamed to<br>> > abc.en.srt in order to view the subtitle along with the movie in media<br>> > player. The plasma media center is unable to show the subtitles when the<br>> > movie is being played.<br>> > *<br>> > *<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Earlier Full screen Icon was in Media Player but it didn't fit well there<br>> > so we moved it into configuration section in HomeScreen.<br>> > Yeah, Video subtitle doesn't work for all possible subtitles file. Right<br>> > now it works only for ffile with filename.srt file. It needs to be improved<br>> > to work with all kinds of subtitle files.<br>> ><br>> > **Kindly review the points mentioned above and please give me your<br>> > feedback. I would try to explore more in media center and will keep you<br>> > updated with any kind of improvements, that I come across and, can be done<br>> > in it.<br>> > *<br>> > *Regards,<br>> > Saurabh Jain<br>> ><br>> > ------------------------------<br>> > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:50:59 +0530<br>> > Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>> > From: ksinny@gmail.com<br>> > To: saurabhskj@hotmail.com<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Hi Saurabh,<br>> ><br>> > Thank you for showing your interest towards this project.<br>> > I liked some of your ideas which you have mentioned but I think you have<br>> > deviated from our idea's title which is "Improvements and enhancements<br>> > for Plasma Media Center".<br>> ><br>> > This application is not much mature not. That is why, we are looking for<br>> > improvement of existing features which we have. So, please go trough what<br>> > all features are already available in PMC<br>> > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center<br>> > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center .<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Try to use PMC and then see what all improvements you can do in it to make<br>> > it better and more usable.<br>> > I hope you understood what exactly we want.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj@hotmail.com>wrote:<br>> ><br><b>In the following mail, I discussed some of the ideas which were both improvements as well as enhancements for this application with new features which I felt them to be added based upon by experience of using this software. Please go through them as well. </b></div><div>> > Dear mam,<br>> ><br>> > I would like to elaborate more on some of the ideas I mentioned in my past<br>> > email. First of all, the feature which I proposed on the concept of<br>> > multi-threading or thread- based multi tasking. Lets take an example in<br>> > which user is listening to some music in the playlist. Now, if the user<br>> > wants to play some music in other playlist or from the disk storage, it can<br>> > be done only at the cost of termination of present session or starting a<br>> > parallel session of media center (* process- based *multitasking ) but<br>> > the latter one will be expensive and limited (in terms of Inter-process<br>> > communication as well) and will require an extra memory space which will<br>> > eventually decrease the CPU performance. Using thread- based multitasking<br>> > in the code, rather than starting a new process every time in cases<br>> > mentioned above, a program can run many instants of it at the same time<br>> > which also share same memory/address space. Further, Interthread<br>> > communication is also easily done and inexpensive as well. This concept can<br>> > also be used to compare many pictures simultaneously and then rate it and<br>> > tag your peers and share it (the feature of "sharing on social networking<br>> > site") .<br>> ><br>> > I have an experience of working with multi- threading in Java as I built<br>> > quite a few applets in my first year of college. So I think above mentioned<br>> > features can also be coded in Qt platform.<br>> > Synchronization feature- I would like to discuss with you on IRC as I am<br>> > having some queries related to its implementation.<br>> > I would like to know whether a scripting language like perl etc be used to<br>> > introduce some more features based upon socket programming in media-<br>> > center?<br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> > Saurabh Jain<br>> ><br>> > ------------------------------<br>> > From: saurabhskj@hotmail.com<br>> > To: ksinny@gmail.com<br>> > Subject: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries<br>> > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:53:52 +0530<br>> ><br>> > Dear *mam,<br>> > I, Saurabh Jain, am a sophomore, B.Tech in Computer Science and<br>> > Engineering student at IIT Mandi. I would like to participate in this<br>> > year's google summer of code 2013 and therefore went through the projects<br>> > listed by KDE organisation. I explored a couple of those projects<br>> > thoroughly and hence, I would like to share some ideas and ask queries<br>> > related to this project with title- *Improvements and enhancements for<br>> > Plasma Media Center. *<br>> > I recently installed the software on my linux system and found this<br>> > project idea to be quite an awesome to begin with. The all-in-one<br>> > integration keeps it apart from other software. Some additional features<br>> > like implementing a search engine which shows all the results irrespective<br>> > of whether its a music, picture or video. Using the concept of<br>> > multi-threading, multiple files of same type can be executed in parallel.<br>> > Using this feature, if the user wants to compare the two files, in case of<br>> > pictures, then he/she can do it with ease. Another feature which is<br>> > synchronizing your files stored on the mobile device can also be added.<br>> > Sharing of files on the social networking site can also be incorporated in<br>> > this software which can be done using the concept of socket programming.<br>> > At present, based upon my experience in using this software, any file like<br>> > a song etc cannot be directly played with this application by just right<br>> > clicking on that file and then choosing this application in the "open with"<br>> > menu option. Adding this feature will make the user to play the file<br>> > directly rather than first opening the software and then browsing the file<br>> > in the directory, in case the file is not already present there in the<br>> > media center.<br>> ><br>> > Kindly let me know your opinions on the above mentioned ideas.<br>> ><br>> > Regards and Thanks,<br>> ><br>> > Saurabh Jain<br>> > Coordinator, Programming Club<br>> > B.Tech'15, C.S.E.<br>> > IIT Mandi<br>> > Ph: +91-9805377265<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > http://www.sinny.in<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > http://www.sinny.in<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Plasma-devel mailing list<br>> > Plasma-devel@kde.org<br>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel<br>> ><br>> ><br>> Cheers,<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)<br>> http://www.shantanutushar.com<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/attachments/20130424/6110a455/attachment.html><br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Plasma-devel mailing list<br>> Plasma-devel@kde.org<br>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel<br>> <br>> <br>> End of Plasma-devel Digest, Vol 58, Issue 78<br>> ********************************************<br></div></div> </div></div><style><!--
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