[IDEA] Google Summer of Code - plasmoid mixer with phonon lib

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, Trever Fischer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2009 01:11:23 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 March 2009, Adam Jordanek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm a student from Poland - from Wrocław University of Technology. And
> > > I want help plasma in Google Summer of Code.
> > > I have got a new idea on plasmoid to changing level of volume. Idea is
> > > on picture http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1658/testh.png (in
> > > combobox'll be profiles). In project has to use Phonon. I'm waiting
> > > for opinions.
> >
> > interesting idea, and one that we need. i don't know if it would be
> > enough on its own to fill a full SoC project? the UI proposed in your
> > mock up could probably be reworked somewhat to provide something a bit
> > more streamlined and elegant, but it's a decent starting point :)
>
> I think a more important SoC project would be some kind of Qt library for
> pulseaudio, which could then let /any/ Qt app (like kmix) use pulseaudio. I
> myself have tried hacking on such a thing before getting bored and going
> back to other stuff :P

imho this is completely the wrong direction to go. relying on pulseaudio makes 
as much sense as relying on gstreamer or aRts. it's not portable enough nor 
guaranteed to be around for as long as plasma is.

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