[Kdenlive-devel] GUI

[Jason Wood]

On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 9:32 am, Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
>So would it be possible to have both; automatic and manual switching between 
>modes?

Yes.

Effectively, there are two modes of operation that we need - clip and 
workspace (The timeline preview mode fits within the workpsace mode).

Instead of trying to put them both into a single monitor window, they will 
have seperate monitor windows. However, in the standard configuration, these 
windows will be stacked inside a tab window, liek the project and debug 
windows are at the moment.

This way, the user can change between the windows at will.

To add automatic layout management, kdenlive will issue an "activate" command 
to the relevant monitor when some action is performed. E.g., if you drag the 
timeline ruler widget, the workspace monitor will become active. If you 
select a clip, the clip monitor will become active.

It will be possible for the user to choose his layout, as it is already - if 
the user wants to have both windows on screen at once, that is fine.

As far as I am aware, this requires no extra coding from piave, and very 
little from kdenlive - I can either move piave's X window from monitor to 
monitor as needed, or even just launch a seperate piave process for the each 
monitor - the resources that Piave uses when doing nothing are *tiny*, and 
the design is already in place to allow this to happen without confusion 
between the seperate instances.

The only issue that might come about is contention with /dev/dsp, but the 
logic within kdenlive (once complete) will make sure that only one monitor at 
a time will play.

That's my current plan anyway. Feel free to comment ;-)

Cheers,
Jason

p.s. The bug Reinhard mentioned, where adding a file to the project list, 
selecting "open file", saying "no" to the "do you want to save dialog" 
crashes kdenlive... is now fixed.

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Jason Wood
Homepage : www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk