[Plasma Media Center] some advice request

[Alessandro Diaferia]

Il giorno 04/giu/2010, alle ore 22.47, Markus <kamikazow at web.de> ha  
scritto:

> On Friday 04 June 2010 21:51:42 Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
>> I already mentioned the aim is to show the video full screen and  
>> having it
>> embedded inside a QGW is way ugly as it is rendered badly.
>
> May I ask why the video has to be embedded into QGW when playing  
> full-screen?
> Why not simply launch a new always-on-top-and-fullscreen window?

Because things such playback controls are applets and other fancy  
animated components are supposed to appear and stay on top of the video
>
>> The second aim we have is to allow different kind of inputs to be  
>> used for
>> the Media Center interaction.
>
> IMO all input handling should be done using Gluon
> <http://gitorious.org/gluon>. It's a KDE project targeted at game  
> developers.
> I've once read somewhere that Gluon supports all kinds of input  
> devices and in
> case Gluon doesn't support Wiimotes, maybe it'll be better to add  
> the support
> there.

Great news, thanks for having pointed it out.. I'll try to gather more  
news about this

> I wouldn't be surprised at all if a HTPC with Plasma Mediacenter  
> will end up
> as part-time gaming console anyway...

Yeah, likely :P
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