TV Kio Slave 0.1

[David Edmundson]

Name: TV Kio Slave
Version: 0.1
Type: KDE Video Application
Depend: 
License: GPL
Homepage: 
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=64818

Description:
 The TV KIO slave is a way of nicely displaying
your media collection. It is still at a very early
stage in development, but should be stable. It is
really just a way of allowing Konqueror to support
Wide Icon view without needing to edit Konqueror.

About:
The easiest way to see what this does is to look
at the screenshots. The idea behind it is to make
file browsing a bit prettier. The inspiration came
from the Wide Icon view in Xbox Media Center, and
it follows much the same principles. This kio
slave searches for the appropriate image, and
displays the folder in a graphical format. When
the user selects a TV show (folder), they are
taken to the normal konqueror file view.

This doesn\'t have to be used for just TV shows,
anything which divides into categories could make
use of this.

Installation:
Download the tarball, extract and \"cd\" to the
directory.
./configure
make
sudo make install

This requires KDE and QT library headers. Easiest
way is to run \"sudo apt-get build-dep ipodslave\"
Konqueror needs to be restart before it will see
the new KIO.

Usage:
point konqueror to \"tv:/PATH_TO_MEDIA\" ie.
\"tv:/mnt/sKonqueror needs to be restart before it
will see the new KIO.
hare/tv/\"
You will probably find that many of your TV shows
don\'t have icons, and therefore don\'t appear
like my beautiful screenshots.
For an icon to appear there must a file titled
\"folder.jpg\" must be placed in each subfolder.
Please note it must be called \"folder.jpg\" even
if the image is a PNG, TIF or JPEG.
So for the above example, if you have a folder
/mnt/share/tv/Family Guy you need to place the
icon at /mnt/share/tv/Family Guy/folder.jpg

These icons can be found by click \'fetch icon\'
in the lower right corner of the button.


Todo:
There is much left to finish -  Below are a few of
my \"plans for v0.02\"

Automatic icon downloading within the KIO
Allow a range of icon names.
Support KIO slaves inside it, so it works over a
network
Handle going into subfolders, for TV series and
the files themselves
Show Files
Anything that you guys suggest