Plasma and Amarok

[Seb Ruiz]

On 11/07/07, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Maximilian Kossick <mkossick at gmx.de> wrote:
> > SNIP
> > > >
> > > > So I guess the plan is to make Amarok::ContextView another formfactor
> > > > (like desktop, panel, mediacenter). Does that mean we need to expend
> > > > some enum in plasma?
> > > >
> > > > Is there drag and drop support already? Some day I want to be able to
> > > > drag plasmoids out of CV to plasma.
> > > >
> > > > Do we need a data engine inside of Amarok, the same process. It seems
> > > > kind of strange that the CV widgets talk to Amarok through an external
> > > > process.
> > >
> > > well, not exactly. the way you are thinking of the new contextview is
> > > like simply
> > > another facet of plasma, e.g
> > > . plasma "extended" into amarok. thats not actually how it (currently)
> > > works.
> > >
> > > right now i've copied/modified the relevant source files from the
> > > plasma source tree into amarok. so we have our "own"
> > > plasma. we will have our own plugins, with our own servicetype. now,
> > > it would be cool
> > > if we could just drag and drop from plasma<->amarok, but that i think is
> > > something to think about in the future.  we can't have amarok be another
> > > another formfactor of plasma for a few reasons:
> >
> > I know that there are formfactors for putting plasmoids into horizontal or
> > vertical task bars. Amarok's context view has some space constraints too.
> Did
> > you already investigate which plasma formfactor we should use when putting
> > stuff into the context view?
>
> yes, there are form factors for plasmoids. but they are not
> exactly applicable to us. basically, the
> planar form factor mean you have 2 degrees of
> freedom (like normal). there is then a
> mediacenter form factor which assumes tha the user
> is ~10ft away from the screen---not
> exactly applicable to us. and then there is a
> horizontal/vertical form factor that
> constrain the applet's movement in one of the
> two directions.

I'm thinking this could be really freaking cool, imagining a jukebox
setup, with the playlist (upcoming tracks) and the context view with a
giant cover image and some artist info etc.


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