GSoC Proposal : Video-clip applet in Amarok 2.X context-view

[Leo Franchi]

On 23 Mar 2009, at 14:32, Simon ESNEAULT wrote:

> That was an expected answer :o)
>
> But maybe we can grow up a little bit the project, no ? For example  
> we can also try to retrieve picture from public Flickr and Picasa  
> album, and get artist information from last.fm, and mix the  
> information in the same applet, following the mashtape plugin of  
> songbird (http://getsongbird.com/) but we'll loose originality ...
>

I'll reply here to both the original proposal and your update.  
Regarding your initial proposal:

I feel as mark does that just a video playing applet is not enough.  
Especially with the new Plasma::VideoWidget thing or whatever it  
wouldn't be more than a few weeks of work. However, the dateengine  
that you propose is more substantial. Having a data-engine that  
fetches video streams from all sorts of websites would be nice. But  
even both of these together, imo, do not fill a summer of work.

Regarding what you are talking about above:

You are basically describing the Meta-Applets GSoC proposal that I  
also put up on the wiki (this is a good thing, because it means that  
there is momentum or at least some thought behind it). It would make a  
lot of sense to pull together different information and put it in a  
single coherent place (i wont repeat myself, read the project entry on  
the kde soc techbase page for more). Playing video is a natural  
extension of this. So I would recommend developing a Meta-Applet  
proposal, possibly focused on a "rich content" meta applet (so video,  
photos for example).

leo

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