Plasma and Amarok

[Leo Franchi]

On 7/11/07, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


then we can finally silence all the feature requests for a jukebox mode....


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