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

[Ashish Madeti]

I do need to create a custom DBus interface in PMC, for controlling it
through remote control in kdeconnect. I also plan to extend the interface
to expose the media collection available to PMC, so that the user can
choose a media from the whole collection rather than just the current
playlist.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
*Ashish Madeti*
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