Remote control feature on Amarok

[Milot Shala]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh just just remembered
>
> Since SC 4.4 plasmoids has a Sharing plasmoids functionality built in. I
> havent used that feature yet, but i guess it has a lot in common with what I
> wrote about :)
>
> p.s. I'm more a user, not a Amarok dev and can't provide mucth techincal
> help
>
> On 18 March 2010 17:23, Milot Shala <milot.shala at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be dam great to have fully featured remote control solution for
>>> KDE.
>>>
>>> One of the best phone i had was SE k700i because of its support of HID
>>> (human interface device). SE also had provided a suite to creating your own
>>> profiles, so i was able to control everything from presentation, mouse,
>>> media player etc.
>>>
>>> We have LIRC for IR connection, we have WebUI for Internet connections, i
>>> guess there should be something for bluetooth too.
>>>
>>> Why do I, as an end user, should "bother" about protocols and similar
>>> stuff?
>>>
>>> Having chain like
>>> [dbus | keyboard and mouse emulator] <-> KRemoteControlCenter <->
>>> [Bluetooth | IR | WiFi | internet] <-> [Iphone | UIQ | S60 | Android | etc]
>>>
>>> Where communication would be standardized and any device could load xml
>>> based profile and choose the best link (bt or wifi etc) to the desktop.
>>>
>>> So any app could have remote control support just by creating simple xml
>>> file. Not talking about pushing feedback to connected user Like "kget just
>>> finished distro.x.y.iso.\n Hash check completed.\n Blank CD detected, would
>>> you like to burn iso?" form anywhere anytime.
>>>
>>> Hope you got my point :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Hi Lucas,
>>
>> I really like your idea and would be perfect to make that happening! For
>> that reason I started this topic but my interests were mainly applying such
>> functionality to Amarok, but it can be a nice interface to implement it on
>> KDE as a whole!
>>
>> Currently I am trying DBus interfaces of Amarok, I will be back here
>> again.
>>
>> --
>> Milot Shala, Software Engineer
>> www.spartansoft.org | m.shala at spartansoft.org
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Well I am a Qt/C++ developer and I don't know the KDELibs that well, so I am
trying to be one of Amarok devs in the near future and help contribute to
such good player :D

-- 
Milot Shala, Software Engineer
www.spartansoft.org | m.shala at spartansoft.org
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