GSoC'15 project: Improve MPRIS plug-in of KDE Connect and create a remote control for PMC

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Ashish Madeti <ashishmadeti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all !!
> I discussed with Albert, Shantanu and several others about a project for
> this year's GSoC. I want to improve the MPRIS plug-in of kdeconnect by
> adding tracklist MPRIS interface support and want to create a custom plug-in
> which acts as a remote control for Plasma Media Centre.
> I also wanted to add several more features like:
>  1) Showing cover art of the now playing media [1].
>  2) Notification area support [2].
>  3) Lock screen support [3].
>
> As Albert mentioned that he won't be able to mentor the project, is it
> possible for someone else in the kdeconnect team to mentor me?
>
> What do you think of these features? I saw a branch in the
> kdeconnect-android repo with name "feature/noti-mediacontrol", so is
> somebody else working on the second feature, or is it OK to include it in my
> GSoC project?
>
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345015
> [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337529
> [3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337485

There's a review request doing [2] and [3]. It's not quite done yet and stale.
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122486/

I think the features are interesting but definitely not enough for a
GSoC project. If your project is about improving stuff in PMC and then
doing a couple of patches in KDE Connect, then it can be fine.

Aleix