[GSoC 2010] Plasma Media Center Idea

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2010/2/25 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Alessandro Diaferia
> <alediaferia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello people,
> > it's been a while since the last time you heard about me :-) I'm busy
> with
> > my thesis and everything will be over by the end of April. In the
> meantime,
> > anyway, i'd like to see the mediacenter stuff back again :-).
> > I have some ideas here and there in my mind to make concrete for the
> > mediacenter but one thing that reached a good point of maturity was the
> > backend library. I'd like to suggest this as GSoC project for the
> > mediacenter and i'd like to be mentor for this.
>
> i would be very happy to see this going
>
> > The idea briefly:
> > there's some sort of complete api already that allows people to write
> > backends able to retrieve media stuff from services like youtube, picasa,
> > flickr and so on.. I was working on some generic dataengines for this
> > together with kde-silk people and i'd like to see this part complete.
> > YouTube, Flicker and Picasa have their own backends already even if some
> > work is still there to be done. The project would be about making these
> > backends ready and develop the relevant models for the model/view stuff
> of
> > the mediabrowser applet in order to allow browsing media contents from
> web
> > services. This way we reach 2 goals: a good example of how kde-silk is
> > important and one brick more in the huge wall media center land is.
> >
> > Ideas are really really welcome.
> >
> another important thing is getting the ui really going.
> probably it would be easier this year since we actually have qml in a
> near release state (see plasma-mobile), compared to last year
>

Then that could be one idea more i think! :-) And of course you are adding
yourself as mentor, right? =) (because i'm not so experienced with qml).


>
> Cheers,
> Marco MArtin
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I'm going to try qml deeply soon then.. In the while can i add those ideas
to the wiki page?
-- 
Alessandro Diaferia
KDE Developer
KDE e.V. member
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