[Kwintv] xmltv support

[Martin Köbele]

On Tuesday, 14. December 2004 20:49, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2004 14:10, Martin Köbele wrote:
> > oic, so if I wanted to implement an xmltv-plugin I might as well just
> > begin from scratch. It's now a question where to display the information.
> > It could be either via osd or another tab page in that channel-widget. So
> > thing is that the xmltv developer wants to change the format of the xml
> > document. Don't know yet how soon he wants to release that new version.
>
> It would be nice if could start working on such a plugin! I think it should
> work as an OSD. The main reason why I ripped out the "Channelsuites"
> sidebar tab was that I usually size the sidebar to fit the channel names,
> and this is way too narrow to show a webpage. For this, I implemented that
> a doubleclick on a channel in the sidebar opens konqueror with the URL
> configured for this channel, this is much more usable.
> The XMLTV plugin should have a DCOP interface so it can be used via remote
> control / KDELIRC. I'd suggest to try to implement it as an OSD plugin,
> feel free to extend the kdetv OSD plugin API to fit your needs. But if it
> gets "too generic" this is an indication that the plugin should be a "misc"
> plugin.
>
> You can get the current station ID from VBI (vbimanager.h, signal
> networkID). For stations not broadcasting this, another way has to be
> implemented...
>
> Feel free to ask me for help/hints if you like.

this sounds good. Can't promise anything though.
I'm gonna start with that in the new year.

Martin
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