Konrad Materka, GSOC proposal

[Matthias Kretz]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Konrad Materka wrote:
> Ian Monroe napisał(a):
> > I'm pretty sure it's your signature and the way you send messages
> > that's giving grief, so I confidently copy your message to respond to.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org> wrote:
> >> SpamAssassin doesn't like me today:
> >>  http://vir.homelinux.org/stupid_spamassassin.mbox
> >> I didn't say whether the subtitle gets parsed in libphonon or in the
> >> backend. And I'm not sure at this point where it really should go. But
> >> ideally Phonon should be able to handle any media format, and that
> >> includes ext. subtitle files.
> >>
> >> For a start I'd put subtitle parsing in the backend. It's easier to move
> >> code from the backend to the frontend than the other way around.
> >
> > Given the Xine has no way to decode just subtitles, I suppose this
> > means he'd have to add the functionality to like phonon-xine. Perhaps
> > he could do it in a such a way that it'd be easy to add to other
> > phonon backends.
> >
> > Perhaps the ability to drag around subtitles could be in the frontend at
> > least?
>
> 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

I don't see the loss of control.

> Widget:
> + more control
> + could be used without Phonon
> + it was the first idea :)
> - another universal library (in Phonon mean)

Usable without Phonon sounds like a plus, but really, how many use cases are 
there for using a Qt/KDE-style API to subtitles but not use Phonon?

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