[GSoC-2013] KMix2 and SoundMenu sounds GREAT!!

[Trever Fischer]

On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 12:47 +0200, Antonio Ramírez wrote:
> Hello! 
> 
>     My name is Antonio Ramirez and I am a student of Computer
> Engineering in the ETSIIT (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería
> Informática y Telecomunicaciones), Granada, Spain. I want to
> participate in GSoC this year, I have read the page of proposed
> projects and I love that of KMix2 and SoundMenu. I have experience
> with Qt and C + + (I'm private tutor of Qt and I've got some code at
> gitorious.org, mainly a meetings and events management program,
>  although it is in Spanish and there is some chaos in the organization
> of the 
> branches- https://gitorious.org/acolito/myacolito -)

Neat!
> 
> I've been stumbling across KDE development environment's setup (it's a
> little tricky :D), and i've been reading the KMix code (from anongit),
> and after sending mail to KDE-developers' mailing list
> (kde-multimedia's list should have been my first option, my mistake),
> and asking for help and guidance on IRC multimedia's channel... well,
> here i am :D
> 
> 
> I've read Trever Fischer's scratch demo proposal, and i've doing some
> research, here it is:
> https://gitorious.org/gsoc-2013-mpris2-control-example 

Looks good! I'm excited to read your GSOC application :)
> 
> 
> Okay, the GUI isn't a state-of-art GUI, but it's a proof concept of
> MPRIS2 control. The MPRIS2ExControl class search DBus active services,
> and select MPRIS2-compliant ones, like amarok and dragonplayer. Not
> all the MPRIS2 players needs to implement the /Player and /Tracklist
> interfaces, so the REAL MPRIS2Control must check before using them.
> 
> 
> MPRIS2ExControl class connect the MPRIS2 /Player interface's signal
> 'TrackChange', so the example updates a textBrowser showing the
> current track's metadata.
> 
> 
> It's not perfect. Still buggy and there's plenty of room for expansion
> and improvement. But... it's a proof concept :D. It's been tested and
> developed with Amarok (KDE 4.10 version), and it's kinda operative
> with Dragon Player (can stop a current track, but no change to next or
> previous one :( )
> 
> 
> I'll send the apply form this week, but... this is my introduction. I
> hope it will help the chosen one, if i'm not elected :D
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> (PD: I'm not fluent on English, and i'm pretty sure this mail seems
> like a barbaric one to a lot of people... i'll beg you pardon :D)
> 
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