KMediaPlayer expansion/standardisation

[Neil Stevens]

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On Monday April 12, 2004 3:25 am, Will Stephenson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I think it would be a good idea to standardise media player's dcop
> interfaces by expanding the KMediaPlayer interface in kdelibs already
> used by a few players.  As I've said before[1], it would enable a lot of
> duplicate code to be removed at least.  I've done a comparison of
> various music and multimedia players' different interfaces (in
> technicolor!) here:
>
> http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/william.stephenson/home.informal/player_dc
>op_comparison.pdf

I'm glad KMediaPlayer hasn't been forgotten. :-)

> What do you think of this idea?  As a next step I would produce a
> proposed function set for both new interfaces.

I think it's an interesting idea, but your biggest challenge will be 
getting all those app maintainers on board.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at hakubi.us

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