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

[Aleix Pol]

I think you need to process a bit what you want to do.

Note that even though MPRIS is an API on top of DBus, not all DBus is
tunneled through KDE Connect.

Aleix

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Ashish Madeti <ashishmadeti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> --
> Ashish Madeti