Konrad Materka, GSOC proposal

[Ian Monroe]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Konrad Materka <materka at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Uh, I've just read this and I see it is getting warmer :)
>
>  I wanted widget to have full control and for example capture mouse
>  events. Of course, we can propose workaround. For example, dragging
>  subtitles around: redirect some events or change subtitles positions in
>  realtime...
>  Simply, I (we!) have to make a choice - Phonon back-end or external widget.
>
>  Phonon:
>  + one to rule them all
>  - loss of control
>
>  Widget:
>  + more control
>  + could be used without Phonon
>  + it was the first idea :)
>  - another universal library (in Phonon mean)
>
>
>  add more, correct if I'm wrong :)

Well actually Kretz is proposing you just change the widget that's in
the Phonon backend. The problem is that then it has to be implemented
separately in each backend, though perhaps Kretz has more of an idea
of what could be in libphonon and what could be in the phonon backend.

Ian