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

[Ashish Madeti]

I want to expose the media collection over DBus, so that the user can
choose the media from the kdeconnect app.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
*Ashish Madeti*
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