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

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Ashish Madeti <ashishmadeti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

* small clarification, you don't need to create anything. You want to. ;-) *

You want to expose the media collection available to PMC? Isn't it
already available to PMC? Or you want to expose it in MPRIS?

Aleix